Espola's newest neighborhood

espola said:
The first time I worked in one, I had a sudden realization of how they were built one day while staring off into space thinking over some computer problem and I noticed the welded joints along the ceiling. Then I got to watch a small building's day-by-day progress when they put up a rec center complete with oversized racquetball court in the SAIC Campus Point campus.
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First one I worked on was Otay Mesa, 1981 or '82.
 
Hüsker Dü said:
First one I worked on was Otay Mesa, 1981 or '82.
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The building in the background, 8835 Balboa, starting in 1978. The older building in front is cinder-block construction.

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espola said:
The upper view is from the north, the direction from which the Gaden Road residents see it.

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After the attempt to put in a concert venue failed, the property has sat vacant, even as the rest of the industrial park was built out. If a Poway resident were inclined to root out the reasons for the zoning change, he could look into County records to see who sold the land to Ryan Companies in January, and whether or not that owner has been active in support of Poway politicians.
 
Today I found out about Oceanside Trenchcoat Guy. I saw him sitting under the pier (in his trenchcoat!), back to one of the pilings, watching the waves break over him. I informed a lifeguard who said "That's Bruce. He has a youtube channel."

 
espola said:
Today I found out about Oceanside Trenchcoat Guy. I saw him sitting under the pier (in his trenchcoat!), back to one of the pilings, watching the waves break over him. I informed a lifeguard who said "That's Bruce. He has a youtube channel."

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Man are you one straaaaange human...why did you post that.
 
I found out just before I left my son's place in Sacramento last night that Poway has a water problem. Some residents complained about discolored water and after investigating the City put out a "boil water" alert and started giving away free bottled water to all Poway residents at 2 locations - City Hall and Lake Poway. After that, the SD County health board shut down all restaurants in Poway until the problem is resolved.

Back in the 50's, residents and landowners of what is now Poway formed a Poway Water District in order to qualify for receiving water from the county and state water supplies. Before that, all water consumed in the city came from small private reservoirs and wells. When the city was incorporated in 1980, the boundaries were those of the old Water District. The city water treatment plant stores water delivered by aqueduct pipes in Lake Poway, treats it in a modern facility, and stores the treated water in a large covered reservoir known as a "clear well". Apparently, during the recent rainstorm, some rainwater that had accumulated on the cover leaked through and mixed with the treated water.

The treated water reservoir is the large grey rectangle in the google maps picture below --
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The State inspectors say that the Poway reservoir is out of compliance because of the proximity of a storm drain.. The likely culprit is the grating in the street pictured below, which the city says overflowed in the recent storms and caused untreated water to flow into the clear-well reservoir behind it. The City says that they are "shocked" since that same structure has been there since the treatment plant was upgraded over 50 years ago, and passed State inspection as recently as September.

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