The Beverly Hills Unified School district was vindicated recently as The California Geological Survey found that there are no active earthquake faults at the Beverly Hills High School, or on Santa Monica Boulevard.
The school district was recently blindsided by The Metropolitan Transit Authority’s allegations that earthquake faults ran underneath Beverly Hills High School. If faults did indeed run under the school, then existing buildings could be declared seismically unsafe new construction would be blocked.
Refusing to take the allegations lying down, the Board decided to challenge The Metropolitan Transit Authority, and conduct research of its own.
Deciding to dig trenches to properly assess the earthquake fault risk, the Board, led by engineer Tim Buresh of the Alameda Corridor Transportation Project, set out to definitively investigate the matter once and for all.
“We could not send kids to school unless we knew the campus was safe,” board member Brian David Goldberg, Ph.D., told the Beverly Hills Courier. “There was no other choice.”
After verifying what they knew all along, the Board took their findings to The Metropolitan Transit Authority, who promptly refused a delay of a final decision pending the new data.
As the Beverly Hills Courier reports, The Metropolitan Transit Authority’s rejection of a Santa Monica Boulevard station, and the subsequent selection of the corner of Constellation and Avenue of the Stars, was based solely on the alleged existence of the West Beverly Hills Lineament and the Santa Monica Fault.
In response to The Metropolitan Transit Authority’s refusal, the Beverly Hills Board of Education asked The California Geological Survey to intervene, and review their data.
CGS professionals visited the site and observed the trenching north of the Beverly High campus on the Santa Monica Boulevard Property, The Beverly Hills Courier reports.
According to the California Geological Survey, “The consultants [hired by the Beverly Hills Board of Education] performed a thorough fault investigation program at the subject site and it appears evidence of active faulting related to the west Beverly Hills Lineament or the Santa Monica Fault Zone was not encountered within the limits of this investigation . . . CGS has reviewed the interpretations and much of the original data provided by the consultants and finds that their conclusions are consistent with the available data.”
With the validation of the Beverly Hills Board of Education’s research, the CGS also confirmed that there is no fault on Santa Monica Boulevard either.
As per the Beverly Hills Courier, the Metropolitan Transit Authority not only used the alleged faults to justify the routing of tunnels underneath the high school, but also to drastically lower the price they would have to pay Beverly Hills United for taking the land under the campus.
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SOURCE: Beverly Hills Unified School District
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