Lake Los Angeles Buried In Mud, Cleanup Underway

"There was substantial damage to fences, outbuildings and sheds," said Bob Spencer, a spokesman for the L.A. County Department of Public Works, today. "I saw some vehicles that were completely buried in mud, including some 4-wheelers."

Some streets in Lake Los Angeles, 20 miles east of Palmdale, were covered with thousands of cubic yards of material washed out of the San Gabriel Mountains, 10 miles to the south, during Saturday's flash flooding. Some of it may have originated on slopes that were burned in the 2009 Station Fire.

"In some cases, the deluge washed away the shoulders of the roads, which are dirt," Spencer said. "In some cases, it formed a chasm 20 feet deep."

Water lines snapped and caused additional damage on Avenue P-8 and 140th Street East, where sections of road pavement and shoulder washed out, said Spencer. Crews worked all night and additional road crews were sent into the Antelope Valley today.

The county DPW's Waterworks Division restored water service to all of the unknown number of homes that had lost it Saturday.