About 1.8 million people visit Runyon Canyon each year, with 35,000 coming each week, according to the Friends of Runyon Canyon organization. Runyon Canyon Park, the popular hiking area known for its scenic trails in the Hollywood Hills, will reopen next week after a four-month closure, city officials said Thursday. The analysis found that older hillside areas such as Runyon Canyon accounted for more than a third of the utility system’s leaks from 2010 to 2014. Most park users learned about the project at the end of March, just as the park was being shut down. The path was temporary closed while crews replaced an aging 6-inch water main that snakes through the canyon for roughly a mile.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 28, 2016 20:33 UTC