The trenching at the potential future sites of the Millennium Hollywood project and the development at 6230 Yucca St. has been completed, and the developers are expecting to release a geological report in the next two to four weeks.

Drone video captures the trenching work that recently completed at the southwest corner of Yucca Street and Argyle Avenue, where two project have been proposed. (photo courtesy of StopTheMillennium)

On May 6, Group Delta Consultants dug a trench at 6230 Yucca St. and concluded that there was no evidence of an active fault on the site. However, officials found evidence of faulting on a parcel across the street on the southeast corner of Yucca Street and Argyle Avenue.

Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety spokesman Luke Zamperini said faulting appears to have occurred, which is why the city asked the developers to do additional studies. He said the new report will dictate the city’s next move.

“We won’t know what it means until we read their report,” Zamperini said. “Hopefully, all the different excavation in the entire area there will help us understand where the Hollywood Fault is or isn’t.”

To some opponents of the Millennium project, the evidence of faulting confirms their suspicions that the developers original claim — that the Hollywood Fault is .4 miles away from the site — was false.

“They’re no longer able to make that claim,” said George Abrahams, president of SaveHollywood.org, which is among the entities suing to stop the Millennium project. “Of course, we already knew the fault was there previously.”

Abrahams said he went into the trench on the southeast corner of Yucca Street and Argyle Avenue in May and took photos. He said he sent the photos to the state geologist, as well as a geologist working for SaveHollywood.org.

Abrahams said the consultant working for the opponents confirmed that faulting had occurred on the property. However, he is unsure of what the developers found in the trench on the southwest corner of the intersection.

“We hope they’re going to be honest, but we’ll see,” Abrahams said.

Opponents of the project have little trust for the developers — so much so that they hired an individual to fly a drone over the property while the trenching was ongoing.

Fran Reichenbach, of StopTheMillennium, said some opponents of the project attempted to take photos of the trenching from the ground, but were turned away by workers. So they took to the sky.

“We don’t really trust them. I guess that shows that we don’t trust them,” she said, adding that the video has since been turned over to the opponents’ “geologist friends.” “If they find anything at all, it won’t come out now. It will have to come out in front of the courtroom.”

Reichenbach said hiring the drone operator, who she declined to name but described as a friend of a neighbor, also served as a way for the opponents to show the developers that they are paying keen attention.

“We’re not just sitting around fundraising to keep the lawsuit going,” she said. “That’s not just what we’re doing. …Basically, we’re kind of like Minute Men in a way. They created us. Millennium created us.”

Reichenbach said the drone footage cost a few hundred dollars.

As for the lawsuit, a trial setting conference was held on July 17 and was continued until Sept. 9, according to information supplied by the Los Angeles County Superior Court.

The next hearing for the lawsuit filed against the Millennium developers — Millennium Partners and Argent Ventures — by the W Hotel will also be held at that time.