Three filtration plants in the San Fernando Valley are at the center of a $600 million project to supply water to as many as 261,000 households annually.
Los Angeles is nearly finished with a $600 million project in the east San Fernando Valley that will turn contaminated groundwater from Superfund sites into drinking water for as many as 261,000 households annually.
Two of the new facilities are located in North Hollywood, while the largest, which will treat about half of the water, is in the Tujunga Spreading Grounds in Pacoima.Today, L.A. uses about as much water as it did in the 1970s, though it has about a million more people, Cortez-Davis said. Yet, conservation alone isn’t enough to ensure future water reliability, she said.
But rather than wait years to track down all of the culprits, LADWP has opted to move forward with building the treatment facilities proactively, Cortez-Davis said. That decision won’t prevent the city from seeking reimbursement from any responsible parties identified in the future either, she said.The region’s stubborn drought and climate change have made imported water less reliable, and the city wants the greater control it can only get from managing the water sources itself, she said.
“With the region’s water supply increasingly threatened by drought conditions and climate change, cleaning up our aquifers is critical to protecting our drinking water and other beneficial uses,” said Norma Camacho, chair of the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board, in a statement. “Our board is aggressively taking steps to remediate contaminated sites and expand our water resilience portfolio.
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