According to the US military.com website reported on the 15th, according to an assessment released on the 15th, the earthquake that occurred in California last month caused more than $5 billion in damage to the China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station.
According to a list provided to potential contractors by naval facilities engineering command southwest at an industry forum held on Aug. 1, a 13-day survey of nearly 3,600 buildings within the base found that it would cost about $2.2 billion to repair or rebuild damaged infrastructure alone. These include hangars, maintenance facilities, offices, laboratories, 22 ammunition depots, an air traffic control tower, and even a gym and swimming pool. This list was posted on the website of the Southwest Command of Naval Facilities Engineering on the 14th.
According to statistics, the total cost of repair and replacement of facilities and equipment throughout the base is $5.2 billion, including the cost of replacing and repairing buildings, furniture, tools, and communications and other specialized equipment. However, officials said that valuation could change before the list was finally submitted to Congress, and any funding for repairs and rebuilds would require approval from Congress and the president. Lee Sanders, a spokesman for the Southwest Command for naval facilities engineering, said: "There are no official data until this process is completed. "But whatever the final number, restoring the base to a standard of normal use would be costly."
The earthquake caused severe cracks in some of the site's buildings, broken bolts on support beams, and damage to water pipes and electrical equipment. A laboratory testing advanced weapons technology has also been declared unsafe, and more than 1,700 square miles (4,400 square kilometers) of the base still does not have "mission capability," according to the Naval Times. Colonel Ederson, commander of the Southwest Command for Naval Facilities Engineering, said much of the buildings and infrastructure within the base had been damaged, and about 20 percent of the buildings had been declared unsafe or restricted. More than half of the foundations (construction time) date back to before 1980, and some even date back to World War II, so many do not meet current seismic safety standards.
It is reported that the China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station, located 150 miles north of Los Angeles, is located in a large desert, is the largest naval comprehensive weapons test and development base in the United States, is used to support the Navy's research, testing and evaluation missions, and is also a naval air combat center weapons department base, two air test and evaluation squadrons and Marine Corps air detachments and other units are also deployed here.