Beginning in January of this year and lasting into the summer, the City of Huntington Beach saw a flurry of townlot drilling much like the early townlot booms of Signal Hill and Huntington Beach. Wells were drilled on leases consisting of one or more 25 × 117-foot lots, averaging two wells to the acre. The reserves do not seem to justify this close spacing, a large part of the wells having already declined to near the economic limit. The geology uncovered gives a little more insight into the mechanics of the Inglewood fault, which in this case is a lateral-slip fault with associated vertical-slip "feather" faults, and a small fold related to the faulting. This small system resembles larger systems along the Inglewood fault line and is a near-replica of another system on the lateral-slip fault.

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