After being hailed a hero for filling in a pothole in his Brentwood community, Arnold Schwarzenegger's good deed has not gone unpunished, with the city claiming he interrupted scheduled maintenance for a service trench.
A city spokesperson clarified that the location "is not a pothole," but rather "a service trench that relates to active, permitted work being performed at the location by SoCal Gas, who expects the work to be completed by the end of May," in a statement given to NBC Los Angeles.
A city spokesperson later told Fox News Digital that work began on Jan. 26 to "upgrade the pipeline system on Mandeville Canyon Road," where temporary paving was applied.
Standard procedure followed by SoCalGas includes permanently paving the area within approximately 30 days from the conclusion of work, however the city saw complications due to "extraordinary wet and inclement weather." The expectation now is that they will be finished by the end of the week.
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