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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Recall of Karen Bass by LA residents for gross mismanagement has hit 57 thousand signatures.

https://nypost.com/2025/01/11/us-news/outraged-la-residents-call-for-immediate-recall-of-mayor-karen-bass-in-new-petition/[/quote]

[quote] LADWP’s explanation for the shortage comes down to three nearby water tanks, each with a storage capacity of about a million gallons. These tanks help maintain enough pressure for water to flow from fire hydrants in uphill areas — but the pressure had decreased due to heavy water use, and officials knew the tanks couldn’t keep up the drain forever
We pushed the system to the extreme,” LADWP CEO Janisse Quiñones said in a news conference. “Four times the normal demand was seen for 15 hours straight, which lowered our water pressure.”

According to LADWP, the tanks’ water supply needed to be replenished in order to provide enough pressure for the water to flow through fire hydrants uphill. But officials said as firefighters drew more and more water from the trunk line, or main supply, they used water that would have refilled the tanks, eventually depleting them.

I want to make sure that you understand there's water on the trunk line, it just cannot get up the hill because we cannot fill the tanks fast enough,” Quiñones said.

That decreased the water pressure, which is needed for fire hydrants to work in higher elevations.[/quote]
https://laist.com/news/climate-environment/why-did-pacific-palisades-water-hydrants-run-dry[/quote]

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