Is there really no water in LA fire hydrants?
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Date: January 11th, 2025 12:06 PM
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Wtf? How does this happen
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Date: January 11th, 2025 12:20 PM Author: gibberish (?)
Cities rely on the water infrastructure from nearly 100 years ago. Obviously more customers have been added to the system but conservation efforts were actually wildly successful. A city like Portland uses half the water today that it did in the mid 1960s. So you get a lot of these public utilities getting pretty flippant about capacity. Remember even though consumption went down, the same infrastructure had to be maintained. This was seen as a useless burden. Conservation is like Coca-Cola saying buy less product. However, lost to these utilities was the reason many were incorporated to start with. People forget cities used to just burn the fuck down. Almost all major cities have been pretty much leveled at some point in their history.
Sometime in the early 2000s utilities also started applying some of these on-demand lean policies to their operations. I think that's part of how you get a city like LA keeping a min of 9 million gallons on hand when system capacity is around 130 million. And that's really not that much water. After 9/11 massive grants were also given to cities to 'harden' their water infrastructure. The pretext was to prevent a terror attack (nearly impossible with a reservoir) but they also did upgrades for natural hazards. For example I'm 100% certain the Pacific Palisades reservoir had a hardened line fire could use to pull water directly from it. But lol it was empty because with the capacity forecast built around customer usage they could easily slow walk any maintenance. A shit part is that a lot of the rate increases for water over the past 30 years went to add on programs to confront shit like environmental justice. Now the utilities will have to charge more but for worse actual service. Basically this problem even after the fire will persist.
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