Rancho Palos Verdes officials on Tuesday said the landslide that has rendered dozens of homes uninhabitable and crippled infrastructure has slowed significantly, but with the rainy season approaching, the city is bracing for a potential uptick in damage.

The movement has gone from 1 foot a week at one point last year to 1.4 inches a week, the city’s geologist Mike Phipps told City Council members. City staff attributed the slowdown to dry weather and the effectiveness of dewatering wells that pump water out of the ground.

But the slow down doesn’t mean life goes back to how it was. Last year, accelerated land movement forced utility providers like SoCal Edison and SoCal Gas to turn off services for hundreds of residents.

“We're trying to get down to that magic number of 1 inch per week

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