Judith Prieve is a reporter and editor for the Bay Area News Group who covers eastern Contra Costa County for the East Bay Times and The Mercury News. She has worked as a reporter, features editor and assistant metro editor at newspapers in Wisconsin and Northern California and has been at what is now the Bay Area News Group since 1990.
Senior citizen advocate Mike Dupray examines the chute in the trash room at The Commons at Oak Grove senior housing complex in Oakley, Calif., on Tuesday, August 1, 2023. OAKLEY — Seniors began moving back into Oak Grove Terrace late Tuesday after power was restored following a wastewater leak and emergency evacuation over the weekend, management said.
On Sunday morning, firefighters received a call that someone was stuck in the elevator at the Oak Grove Senior Terrace apartments at 67 Carol Lane. Upon arrival, rescuers discovered no one was stuck in the non-working elevator, but wastewater was leaking nearby. The city red-tagged the building, because the clogged wastewater line could have leaked into the electrical panel for the building’s elevator, Ed Cafasso, a property spokesperson, said in a statement. Residents from at least 36 units on Carol Lane were evacuated to three area hotels while those in five other units left to stay with families or friends.
Barbara Bautista, who lives in a different senior building at the complex and was part of the city’s ad hoc committee to address issues at the complex, commended WinnCompanies for its response. Others complained there still wasn’t enough staff for the large affordable housing complex, and repairs could take as long as six months.
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