The Los Osos Community Services District (CSD) is looking for ways to fund permanent repairs to the Cabrillo stormwater basin, which breached and caused several homes in the Vista de Oro neighborhood to flood in 2023.

“I can honestly say this is the worst disaster this community has experienced, that January 9, 2023,” said Ron Mund, Los Osos CSD General Manager.

On that day, a basin, located on a hill above the Vista de Oro neighborhood, breached, causing water and mud to spill down into nearly 20 homes.

“I heard this roar, and I thought it was helicopters. I went to look out the window in the garage, and I saw the mud coming,” said Alice Stone, Los Osos resident.

“We speculate from the geotechnical reports that there was piping caused by gopher and squirrel holes at the base of the ba

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