$85 MILLION OK'D FOR CLEAN WATER; DWP CUSTOMERS TO PAY FOR TREATMENT FACILITIES.Byline: Patrick McGreevy Daily News Staff Writer Launching a costly and controversial program to purify Purify - A debugging tool from Pure Software. water in four open reservoirs in the Santa Monica Mountains The Santa Monica Mountains are a low transverse range in southern California in the United States. Geography They run for approximately 40 mi (64 km) east-west from the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles to Point Mugu in Ventura County. , the Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. voted Wednesday to approve $85 million to build treatment
facilities for the upper and lower Hollywood reservoirs.
Federal law requires that the city build facilities to treat water for contamination caused by birds in open reservoirs and in runoff from surrounding hillsides. In addition to the Hollywood reservoirs, treatment is required at the Encino and Stone Canyon reservoirs. The contract approved by the council Wednesday with Kiewit Pacific calls for construction of a treatment plant for the Hollywood reservoirs, which would serve as a backup water supply. The contract also calls for the building of two 30-million-gallon storage tanks and a bypass line, which would allow treated water from the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. and state aqueducts to go around the Hollywood reservoirs and directly to the 500,000 customers in the Hollywood area currently served by the reservoirs. Because much of the work will be done underground, and soil conditions are not completely known, $11 million of the contract amount is set aside for contingencies, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection report to the council. An arm of the Kiewit firm was part of a construction partnership fired from the Hollywood subway project in 1995 after numerous problems, including development of a sinkhole sinkhole or sink or doline Depression formed as underlying limestone bedrock is dissolved by groundwater. Sinkholes vary greatly in area and depth and may be very large. on Hollywood Boulevard For uses other than the original street, see Hollywood Boulevard (disambiguation). Hollywood Boulevard is a boulevard in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, United States, beginning at Sunset Boulevard in the east and running northwest to Vermont Avenue, where it straightens out and cost overruns. The DWP project will be paid for with a surcharge on Department of Water and Power bills of up to 36 cents per billing unit. ``This project needs to go forth so the department can comply with the regulations,'' said Richard Harasick, a DWP project manager. The project will be completed by Jan. 1, 2001. The DWP still is trying to get community support for construction of similar treatment facilities at the Encino and Stone Canyon reservoirs, which will bring the total cost of the reservoir purification projects to $350 million, officials said. The Encino and Stone Canyon projects contracts will be brought to the council soon, Harasick said. ``This one is the furthest along,'' he said of the Hollywood project. No member of the public spoke for or against the proposal at the council meeting. Councilman Nate Holden Nathaniel "Nate" R. Holden (1929-) served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1987 to 2002. He previously served a term on the California State Senate and was Assistant Chief Deputy to then Los Angeles County Supervisor Kenneth Hahn. voiced the concern of some residents about the massive and costly construction projects, which were proposed after many neighbors of the reservoirs successfully fought proposals to cover the reservoirs. ``You've got to cope with all those trucks coming in and coming out,'' Holden said. ``You have to cope with them for 4-1/2 years.'' He also worried about the cost. ``Who's going to pay for this? The ratepayers,'' Holden said. |
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