A Ventura County lawmaker is proposing new wildfire resilience standards that would require water providers to ensure full ...
Officials urged DWP customers to conserve water throughout the city, “because the fire department needs the water.” ...
Water experts dismissed Trump’s claims that California water policy is to blame for dry hydrants. But Los Angeles is also unprepared for the age of urban wildfires.
indicating the lack of a tank taking up space. The last tech interviewed stated, “The fact that you’re heating it, 50 gallons of hot water over a year and probably only using a little bit at a ...
For local agencies, the disaster in Southern California has prompted renewed attention to issues such as storage, flow ...
each with a capacity of 1 million gallons of water. The tanks, perched high among the neighborhoods, keep up the water pressure in homes — and hydrants — below. As someone takes a bath ...
One after another, the million-gallon tanks ... to refill the tanks but couldn’t refill them fast enough to restore enough pressure to the system to move the water to higher elevations, she ...
said at a Wednesday press conference that all three 1-million-gallon water tanks in the area ran dry by 3 a.m., reducing water pressure for fire hydrants at higher elevations. "We had a tremendous ...
Water pressure in the upper Palisades is sustained with three storage tanks, which hold 1 million gallons each. The tanks, part of a network of more than 100 across the city, are located at ...
At its meeting this month, Town of Ripley council members approved amended water and sewer rate resolutions to reflect an increase in both. Residents in the town’s water districts 1, 2 and 5 will see ...
From his yard, he sees a water storage tank that ... water pressure at his house. The gauge registered 18 pounds per square inch on a recent day. “Most people in the city have 50 to 60 pounds ...