La Habra helps residents clean up mud from clogged storm drain

City workers showed up at a La Habra neighborhood on Thursday to help residents clean up mud that spilled onto four yards after debris from a nearby homeless encampment clogged a nearby drainage pipe.

April Contreras and her neighbors said the trash and furniture from the encampment have clogged the large drainage pipe for years. Their situation worsened after a wall by the pipe broke five years ago, causing rainwater and mud to spill onto their yards.

“It’s a disaster,” Contreras said on Tuesday…

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