El Porto undergrounding delays discussed
The plan to underground the utility and lighting wires in El Porto marked a less than happy 20th anniversary this year, including an over five year wait since residents paid up to $30,000 per parcel to pay for the work. The Manhattan Beach City Council received an update on the matter Tuesday night, one that included some hopeful news. The underground grid is energized and Southern California Edison has completed 57 percent of the private home conversions it is responsible for, and a City team is prodding SCE, Frontier, and the five private contractors doing 90 percent of the work to move faster. But the new timeline City officials shared wasn’t what residents wanted to hear. Work is not expected to be fully completed until sometime in 2027. “In 2020, we were assessed $30,000,” Benedict O’Brien, an El Porto resident, told the Council. “We paid the money five years ago. We were told the project would be done in two to three years, including removal of poles. In 2025, 60 months later, we are getting more stories….There are fingers pointing in all different directions, but when the project was presented to us, it stated that anybody who failed to do the work himself, the City would…
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