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.
“When we had full access to our groundwater wells historically, we were able to rely on groundwater for up to 23% of the city’s water supply,” said Evelyn Cortez-Davis, LADWP’s director of water engineering and technical services. “In recent years, it’s been closer to 10%.”showed. It hasn’t been above 20% since 1999.
The San Fernando Valley Superfund, a federal classification placed on the most polluted sites in the country, is made up of four segments and roughly stretches from Pacoima to Burbank and Glendale. Those two neighboring cities already are operating treatment facilities on their portions and can pump 7 million to 9 million gallons of water from their portions of the Superfund sites each day, according to the EPA.
That shift won’t come cheap. About half of $600 million price tag for the three facilities is funded by Proposition 1, a $7.5 billion water bond measure passed by California voters in 2014. The other half will be paid by ratepayers, Cortez-Davis 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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