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Los Angeles Aqueduct Centennial 2013
On November 5, 2013, the City of Los Angeles celebrated the centennial of the Los Angeles Aqueduct. For a century, Chief Engineer William Mulholland's great engineering achievement has brought water to Los Angeles from the Owens Valley, 233 miles to the north.
Today, the LA Aqueduct is the crown jewel of our water system that supplies 600 million gallons of drinking water to Los Angeles each day. The city has since grown from a pueblo to one of the largest international business hubs in the world, a thriving metropolis and home to 4 million people.
Currently, LADWP is leading an effort to rebuild its local water supplies and reduce reliance on imported water. But the importance of the LA Aqueduct will remain and we celebrate its enduring legacy that helped Los Angeles grow to become the second largest city in the U.S.
LADWP Opens Owens Lake Trails
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has opened The Owens Lake Trails - a public access, education and recreation component of the Owens Lake Dust Mitigation Program. The trails, located in Inyo County, CA, consist of four miles of scenic pathways in three separate locations on the lakebed, featuring scenic overlooks, architectural land sculptures and wildlife viewing areas. The Owens Lake Trails are open to the public, year-round.
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LADWP Rates Overview
We have made major progress in key energy and water related initiatives. To keep making progress, additional investment is needed to ramp up replacement of critical infrastructure, continue reliable water and power delivery, and to meet regulatory mandates. The 2016-2020 Rate Request will support LADWP’s commitment to put our customers first by investing in infrastructure, continuing the transformation of our water and power supplies, and improving customer service, while keeping rates for our customers low.
Los Angeles & Water Imports
The nearly 10 million people in the city and county of Los Angeles, California require a lot of water -- most of which is imported snow melt from the Eastern Sierra Nevadas and Rocky Mountains, hundreds of miles away. UCLA researchers Stephanie Pincetl and Mark Gold are studying how Los Angeles can reduce its water imports and better capture, store and reuse water for a more sustainable water supply.
LADWP - CDTech Video
The collaboration between CDTech and LADWP is an attempt to engage residents in low-income neighborhoods of South LA to actively “go green” and “put green back in their pockets” by learning about the special programs LADWP has to help lower costs for consumers. Not only does this effort lower cost for low-income folks but it helps them be leaders in reducing the carbon footprint in some of South LA’s environmentally challenged areas. CDTech is going door to door educating residents on water and energy conservation tips and supplying residents with shower heads and energy saving lightbulbs designed to reduce the consumption of energy and conserve water.
The Story of Los Angeles's Quest for Water is Both Famous and Notorious (2000)
William Mulholland (September 11, 1855 – July 22, 1935) was responsible for building the infrastructure to provide a water supply that allowed Los Angeles to grow into one of the largest cities in the world. As the head of a predecessor to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Mulholland designed and supervised the building of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, a 233-mile (375 km)-long system to move water from Owens Valley to the San Fernando Valley. The creation and operation of the aqueduct led to the disputes known as the California Water Wars. In March 1928, Mulholland's career came to an end when the St. Francis Dam failed just over 12 hours after he and his assistant gave it a safety inspection.
A fictionalized story loosely based on the California Water Wars was used as the basis for the 1974 Roman Polanski film Chinatown, as well as the first third of the 1994 novel Taking of the Waters by John Shannon.
Mullholland is an immortal sorcerer in Greg van Eekhout's 2014 urban fantasy novel, California Bones. In a California that broke away from the United States 80 years earlier, Mulholland is a despot whose Pacific Ocean desalinization plants provide fresh water for California, secession having cut the state off from the Colorado River. He lacks moral qualms about shutting off hydroelectric power, or destroying dams, to remind people who controls their lives.
Singer/songwriter Frank Black recorded two songs about the life and works of William Mulholland: Ole Mulholland, from Teenager of the Year (1994), and St. Francis Dam Disaster, from Dog in the Sand (2001).
William Mullholland and the California Water Wars are the subject of the BBC Northern Ireland television documentary Patrick Kielty's Mulholland Drive. The program was broadcast in the UK in February 2016 and presented by Irish comedian and television personality Patrick Kielty.
VIOLENT CITY OF LOS ANGELES EMPLOYEE ATTACKS MARRIED COUPLE
LOS ANGELES CITY EMPLOYEE ASSAULTS MARRIED COUPLE, FOLLOWING ROAD RAGE INCIDENT @ 1:38 MARK.
Los Angeles – November 8, 2018: Attorneys representing two Los Angeles residents, a husband and wife, released a surveillance video connected to a civil claim against the City of Los Angeles. The lawsuit alleges that a City of Los Angeles Public Works Department employee, Russell D. Zamora – believed to be the son of L.A. Sanitation “Solid Resources” Superintendent Russell R. Zamora – physically assaulted the couple during a violent road rage incident.
Using a Sanitation Department truck, with a portable toilet in tow, Russell Zamora repeatedly swerved the City truck at the couple’s vehicle, attempting to strike them and cutting-off their path, as they tried to escape his wrath, according to the lawsuit. The incident took place on September 6, 2017, at approximately one o’clock in the afternoon, on North Broadway Street in the Lincoln Heights District of the City of Los Angeles.
According to the civil complaint filed on behalf of couple, the husband and wife then followed the City truck to the North Central District Yard, located at 452 North San Fernando Road, in the City of Los Angeles, to report the City worker’s outrageous and violent behavior. There, the City employee ran up to the husband and physically attacked him, “punching him multiple times, with a barrage of closed-fist strikes to the face and head,” causing serious injuries.
“We’re living in an age where City employees are being held accountable for their bad conduct and injuring people” said Dakar Diourbel, an attorney representing the plaintiffs. “This includes City of Los Angeles Public Works Department employees, as we have seen recently in the case of James Pearl, a former City employee who was subjected to verbal abuse, hazing, and a bullying campaign by Sanitation Department workers.”
Attorneys representing the plaintiffs ask business owners, building managers, and residents with surveillance cameras along North Broadway Street, near North San Fernando Road, to review their stored surveillance video footage from the time of this incident – July 6, 2017 at about 1 p.m. – for any evidence of these vehicular assaults that may have been recorded.
Furthermore, members of the public with information regarding other incidents of physical attacks and abuse committed by City employees are asked to contact plaintiff’s attorneys at: Diourbel & Associates; 1100 South Hope Street, Suite 103; Los Angeles, CA 90015; (213) 858-2698; Diourbel@aol.com.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, Diourbel & Associates is a civil litigation and criminal defense law firm.
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FBI targets LA’s City Hall, DWP in scathing investigation
FBI agents descended on Los Angeles’s City Hall and a public utilities agency Monday amid a wide-ranging federal probe into the local government, according to a new report. Federal agents targeted City Hall, law enforcement sources told the Los Angeles Times, with an FBI van spotted outside the section that houses City Attorney Mike Feuer and several other government departments. A rep for Feuer refused to say whether agents had come into the city attorney’s office, the Times said. But the FBI publicly acknowledged that its investigators, armed with a search warrant, were at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power on Monday. “There is a search taking place at the DWP building. The affidavit in support of the search warrant is under seal by the court,” said FBI spokesman Rukelt Dalberis to the Times. A spokesman for LA Mayor Eric Garcetti said in a statement, “We were notified earlier this morning that federal search warrants were being executed today. “The mayor’s expectation is that any city employee who is asked to cooperate will do so fully and immediately.” The development comes amid a probe into foreign investments in LA real estate, although it’s not clear yet whether the two are related, the Times said. Among the local figures already targeted by search warrants are two councilmen, as well as high-level appointees of Garcetti and the council president, the paper said. Also named are higher-ups in Chinese firms that are providing the funding for several new residential and hotel towers in downtown LA. No one has been arrested in the probe.
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Installs Earthquake Resistant Pipes
Water pipes designed to withstand earthquakes are being installed near Northridge Hospital and in several other sensitive locations around the City of Los Angeles, Mayor Eric Garcetti announced Friday.
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First Reports of the Northridge Earthquake | From the Archives | NBCLA
Look back at KNBCʼs coverage of the the 1994 Northridge earthquake. A timeline of the events surrounding the quake are below:
A 6.7 magnitude earthquake struck underneath the San Fernando Valley community of Northridge on Jan. 17, 1994, killing 57 people and causing $20 billion in damage.
Jan. 17, 1994:
4:31 a.m.: A major earthquake strikes in Los Angeles.
4:37 a.m.: Fires, flooding, buildings down -- widespread damage reported across Southern California.
4:39 a.m.: 5, 14, 10 freeways are severely damaged by the earthquake, the California Highway Patrol reports.
4:40 a.m.: Massive power outages are reported across LA.
4:52 a.m.: Phone service is reported down in some areas.
4:56 a.m.: A train that may have been hauling hazardous materials derails near the Chatsworth/Northridge area.
5:20 a.m.: Between 30 and 40 explosions are reported on Cal State Northridge campus.
5:38 a.m.: Federal Emergency Management Agency announces it will respond to the earthquake.
5:40 a.m.: Caltech reports that the magnitude-6.6 earthquake was centered in the northern San Fernando Valley area.
5:45 a.m.: Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan declares a state of emergency.
6:05 a.m.: All LAX flights are canceled; Metrolink service is shut down.
6:50 a.m.: Hundreds of gas main and water main breaks reported.
7 a.m.: Multiple people found dead at a collapsed apartment building in the 9500 block of Reseda Blvd. in Northridge.
7:10 a.m.: All LAUSD schools are closed.
7:36 a.m.: Death caused by 14 Freeway collapse is identified as a law enforcement officer, fire spokesman says.
9:05 a.m.: Gov. Wilson declares state of emergency, asks President Bill Clinton for federal aid.
9:10 a.m.: National Guard activates its emergency operations centers.
9:18 a.m.: President Bill Clinton vows to help victims deal with the earthquake and its aftermath.
10:50 a.m.: Gov. Pete Wilson tours Northridge earthquake area by helicopter.
12:02 p.m.: Power restored to nearly half of 1.4 million LADWP customers.
12:17 p.m.: Gov. Wilson dispatches 500 National Guard troops. More than 1,500 National Guard troops are expected within 24 hours.
1 p.m.: Tens of thousands of LA residents “may be homeless, Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi says.
1:10 p.m.: “Sporadic” looting leads to more than 25 arrests citywide, LAPD says.
2:08 p.m.: President Bill Clinton declares LA County a national disaster area, releasing federal relief for victims of the Northridge quake.
2:20 p.m.: Death toll rises to 29 and hundreds are injured as the search for survivors continues.
5:20 p.m.: At least 14 people confirmed dead at Northridge Meadows Apartments.
5:50 p.m.: City-wide curfew in LA is in effect until dawn.
Jan. 18
7:01 a.m.: Northridge Earthquake death toll rises to 33.
7:21 a.m.: LAUSD schools remain closed for second day and nearly all schools in surrounding districts are closed.
5:01 p.m.: Citywide curfew to be extended another day, LAPD Chief Willie Williams says.
7:15 p.m.: More than 800 people injured in Ventura County. Property damage estimated at more than $400 million.
7:42 p.m.: Nearly 8,000 homes are still without water in Simi Valley.
Jan. 19
6:01 a.m.: More than 500 hospitalized, 2,300 treated and released Tuesday, hospital officials say.
7:33 a.m.: LAUSD schools remain closed for third day in a row. At least 170 facilities are seriously damaged.
10:32 a.m.: President Bill Clinton arrives in Southern California.
2:36 p.m.: Los Angeles Department of Water and Power officials say three of four LA aqueducts were severed, but local water supply will last at least 7 to 10 days.
Jan. 20
7:32 a.m.: About 36,000 LADWP customers are still without water this morning for the fourth day in a row.
10:32 a.m.: Electricity restored to all parts of LA except for 7,500 customers in the San Fernando Valley, utility officials say.
11:01a.m.: Officials cancel dusk-to-dawn curfew.
2:06 p.m.: State will underwrite loans of up to $200,000 for small-business owners devastated by Northridge Earthquake, Gov. Wilson says.
Jan. 21:
7:15 a.m.: LAUSD schools remain closed for the fifth day in a row.
12:01: Death toll rises to 55 people, officials say.
Jan. 22, 1994
8:00 a.m.: LAUSD plans to reopen most schools. About 300 classrooms remain unsafe.
8:32 a.m.: Some 10,000 households in northwest San Fernando Valley remain without running water.
9:01 a.m.: Crews restore service to 40,000 homes and identify at least that many more that are still without gas, the Southern California Gas Company says.
10:05 a.m.: 236 military tents with a capacity for up to 7,340 people are expected to be in place at 7 Valley locations by nightfall.
1:00 p.m. Federal government releases $283 million in earthquake aid, according to White House Press Secretary Dee Myers.
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Watch TRC Decommission Los Angeles Power Plant Generator with “Surgical” Precision
In 2017 TRC was awarded a $14.2 million contract to decommission one of the three generating units at Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s Scattergood Generating Station – while the other two units there remained in full service.
A complex project constrained by a tight footprint and short timeline, TRC’s dismantling of Unit 3 went off without a hitch. The LADWP’s project manager called it a “surgical removal” that saw work crews safely remove asbestos and lead paint, methodically take down the 330-foot stack and raze the 480 megawatt generator, control room and boiler.
LA Hotels Go Green with Los Angeles Green Lodging Program
Green Seal’s West Coast Director Gary Petersen talks with Environmental Directions radio about the City of LA’s efforts to make LA the most sustainable city in the United States and the successes LA hotels have had offering a healthier and greener experience to their guests.
Partners in the Los Angeles Green Lodging Program include the City of Los Angeles (Mayor Eric Garcetti’s office, Board of Public Works, LA Bureau of Environment & Sanitation, and Los Angeles Department of Water and Power), the Los Angeles Tourism and Convention Board, the Better Buildings Challenge, and Green Seal.
Read more about the LA Green Lodging Program here:
CALIFORNIA CENTRAL VALLEY WATER BASIN, IRRIGATION 1930s EDUCATIONAL FILM 50174
“Golden Valley” is a mid-1930s black-and-white Wilding Picture Production made in cooperation with the United States Department of the Interior, Pacific Constructors Incorporated, the Columbia Construction Company, and the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. The film shows the California Central Valley water system, beginning with the high mountains including Mount Shasta, and terminating in agricultural lands in the south of the state.
Using aerial photography from the Goodyear airship Resolute, the picture opens with mountainous views from around California including Mount Shasta. Near mark 04:00 the film visits the Central Valley, an area outlined by the Cascade, Sierra Nevada, and Tehachapi mountain ranges on the east, and the California Coast Ranges and San Francisco Bay on the west. But drought is taking its toll on some parts, as we see images of dilapidated and abandoned farmhouses and parched earth (mark 04:23). At mark 05:25 we see San Francisco and the Pacific Ocean, and are soon reminded that civilizations depend on water to survive, and that water sometimes falls and flows in all the wrong places. At mark 06:25 we watch as men near Sacramento survey the land “to find a way to preserve a fertile garden empire” in preparation for a dam construction. (That would become Shasta Dam which began construction in 1938 and was opened in 1945). The picture details what was involved in building the dam and making sure supplies could reach the area — eventually creating a lengthy conveyor belt that took material from Redding across the Sacramento River to the site. We are shown many aerial views of the conveyor belt as it crosses highways, railroad tracks, and county roads. Mile after mile the film captures scenes from the conveyor belt — a distance of 10 miles. “A giant transportation job at a fraction of the old cost,” says the narrator at mark 16:28. Scenes from the dam’s construction continue to fill the screen as it slowly rises from the ground and the narrator explains the many planned uses until the film comes to a conclusion.
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Webinar Recording of Characterization of Power Plant Water Use
NARUC’s Center for Partnerships and Innovation
in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories
Present a webinar series on The Water-Thermoelectric Energy Nexus
Water poses many challenges to our nation’s electric power system. Water supply is a concern as every day more than 160 billion gallons of fresh and saline water are withdrawn to support various unit operations (e.g., steam cycle makeup water, air scrubbers, cooling water) for thermoelectric power generation, making it the largest withdrawer of water in the United States. The demand for electricity is growing and with it the need to site new capacity, often in locations with limited water supply options. Under extreme drought conditions power plants have been forced off-line due to streamflow/reservoir levels dropping below intake structures or water temperatures exceeding permitted operating conditions. Toward these challenges the Department of Energy has supported several of their National Labs to assist the nation’s three large electric interconnections in integrating water into their long-term transmission planning.
Much of this work is captured in four related studies. The results of these studies will be presented over a series of four, 60-minute webcasts. Stakeholders in the industry have been invited as panelists to share their perspective on the results. Time for Q&A will be available.
Monday, October 29, 2018 at 1 pm ET / 10 am PT
Characterization of Power Plant Water Use
Study Description: Estimates of operational water withdrawal and water consumption factors (i.e., gal/MWh) for electricity generating technologies in the United States were developed. Estimates were collected from published primary literature and were not modified except for unit conversions. Estimates were distinguished by fuel type, prime mover, cooling type, emissions controls, and location. More recently, power plant operations have been shown to impact water use through the idling and cycling of power generation.
• Moderated by Commissioner John Rosales, Illinois Commerce Commission
• Presenters: Jordan Macknick, National Renewable Energy Laboratory: and Vincent Tidwell, Sandia National Laboratories
• Guest Panelist: Robert Lotts, Director, Palo Verde Water Resources, Arizona Public Service
Explosions fill sky as magnesium fueled fire burns in East Los Angeles
Residents in East Los Angeles woke up to an unexpected fireworks show Tuesday as firefighters battled a three-alarm blaze at a warehouse reportedly stocked with magnesium.
One of several explosions at Maywood structure fire in 3500 blk of Fruitland Ave.
4,000 without power in Maywood commercial building fire
At least three explosions were heard coming out of the fully-involved structure, which were caused by water from the fire hoses hitting magnesium, according to Randall Wright of the L.A. County Fire Department.
Officials were able to keep the fire from spreading but were allowing the magnesium to burn to avoid more violent explosions.
Magnesium is very volatile. This is a very dangerous fire we are fighting right now. The tactic we are going to use now is we are going to allow the magnesium to burn...We're going to extinguish the fire around it, therefore, this fire is going to burn for a while. We'll let it all burn off and protect the property and lives next door to the building, Wright said.
California earthquake felt in Los Angeles and Las Vegas
California earthquake felt in Los Angeles and Las Vegas
The strongest earthquake to hit Southern California in 20 years left scattered damage Thursday morning and was felt from Las Vegas to Orange County, the US Geological Survey reported.
The quake, with an early magnitude of 6.4, was centered near Ridgecrest, a community west of the Mojave Desert and about 150 miles north of Los Angeles
Ridgecrest Mayor Peggy Breeden said the city has had seventh or eight aftershocks, including a really good one as she spoke with CNN shortly before 3 p.m. ET.
As I understand, we have five fires, she said. We have broken gas lines.
Footage from the scene showed firefighters hosing down flames rising from homes.
Firefighters battle a house fire in Ridgecrest, California.
April Rodriguez was at home in Trona when she felt a smaller quake followed by a larger one that didn't stop, she told CNN.
We were panicked trying to get out of the house because everything is falling out of the cabinets, off the shelves, off the walls. ... They were flying like missiles off the shelves.
At least four large aftershocks and dozens of smaller ones were recorded, officials said.
Lucy Jones of the USGS called it a robust series and said there is a 50% chance of another large quake in the next week.
In central Los Angeles, the main temblor was felt as a long, rolling quake, and buildings rocked back and forth for at least several seconds.
The National Weather Service tweeted that the earthquake was also felt in Las Vegas.
It was the largest quake to hit the area since 1999, when a 7.1 earthquake struck in a remote part of the Mojave desert, Jones said.
Jones told reporters, The earthquake was near China Lake and Ridgecrest. It's is sparsely inhabited area, so the number of people who would have received damage is much lower.
In 1994, at least 57 people died in the 6.7 Northridge quake in Los Angeles, which caused $25 billion in damage.
She said there is a 1 in 20 chance that a bigger earthquake will hit within the next few days. It's certain that this area is going to be shaking a lot today and some of those aftershocks will probably exceed magnitude 5.
Jones said the quake was preceded by magnitude 4.2 temblor about 30 minutes before, which she called a foreshock.
Hospital being evacuated
In Kern County, at the epicenter, the Fire Department responded to more than 20 incidents relating to the earthquake and aftershocks, including fires and medical emergencies, according to a tweet on its verified account.
Kern County Fire also tweeted that Ridgecrest Regional Hospital was being evacuated.
Trona, an unincorporated community, sustained varying degrees of damage but no injuries have been reported, according to San Bernardino County Fire's verified Twitter account.
The department reported minor cracks (in buildings); broken water mains; power lines down; rock slides on certain roads in northwestern communities in the county.
Dorothea Smith said boulders fell down hillsides, shattering the asphalt and blocking mountain roads.
There is no going in or out of Trona right now. We're like stuck.
Highway 178 has a 4-inch crack, said San Bernardino County Fire spokesman Jeremy Kern. All highways in San Bernardino County remain open. The area's high tension power lines are all intact.
A crack in the road is seen near Ridgecrest, California after Thursday's quake.
Diane Ruggiero, general manager of the Hampton Inn and Suites Ridgecrest in Ridgecrest, told CNN's Paul Vercammen that the hotel sustained significant damage.
The chandeliers are still swinging, she said five minutes after the quake hit at 10:33 a.m. PT. The floor rippled.
A woman on Twitter shared video from My dads liquor store in Ridgecrest (11 miles from the earthquake)
Filmmaker Ava DuVernay tweeted, Been living in Los Angeles all my life. That was the longest earthquake I've ever experienced. Not jerky. Smooth and rolling. But it was loooong. It was so long I thought for the first time ever Is this the big one? Damn. Respect Mother Nature. She's the boss.
In Lancaster, one Twitter user reported people fleeing a movie theater.
Felt like we were on a turntable, user Rudio87 wrote.
Los Angeles International Airport said no damage was reported on runways. Operations remain normal, it tweeted.
We have no reports of damage to any FAA facilities or operational effects from the quake at this time, FAA spokesman Ian Gregor said.
A tsunami is not expected, according to the National Tsunami Warning Center.
This is a developing story. Return for updates....
Braden Goyette reported from Los Angeles and Jay Croft reported and wrote in Atlanta. CNN's Dave Alsup, Melissa Alonso, Steve Almasy, Ray Sanchez and Carma Hassan contributed to this report
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