PROBE REQUESTED ON OUTAGE PREVENTION PLAN.Byline: Patrick McGreevy Daily News Staff Writer Los Angeles City Council  The Los Angeles City Council is the governing body of the City of Los Angeles, California, United States. members called Tuesday for an
investigation to determine whether the city can better prevent power
outages This is a list of famous wide-scale power outages. 1965
``We spend too much money for the utilities for that to happen,'' 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. said as city Department of Water and Power officials briefed the council on Saturday's power outage Noun 1. power outage - equipment failure resulting when the supply of power fails; "the ice storm caused a power outage" power failure equipment failure, breakdown - a cessation of normal operation; "there was a power breakdown" . ``It doesn't make sense to me. It's almost like a horse and buggy The horse and buggy (in American English) or horse and carriage (in British English) refers to a light, simple two-person carriage drawn by one or two horses. It was made with two wheels in England and with four wheels in the United States. situation. This is the computer age and this is totally unacceptable.'' Council President John Ferraro submitted a motion to be considered by the council in the next week that would direct the 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 to join a federal probe into the seven-state blackout - the second major regional blackout this summer. Ferraro's motion also called for the DWP to ``identify appropriate preventative measures to avoid similar problems in the future'' and to report its findings to the mayor and council. DWP officials told the council that they still are not sure what caused the power outages, although they believe a heat wave in Oregon and Washington may have caused some lines to sag into trees. City Councilwoman Ruth Galanter submitted a motion that calls for an investigation to determine why the power outage triggered the dumping of 6 million gallons of undertreated sewage into Santa Monica Bay Santa Monica Bay is an arm of the Pacific Ocean in southern California, United States. Its boundaries are slightly ambiguous, but it is generally considered to be the part of the Pacific within an imaginary line drawn between Point Dume a mile from the shore. ``Obviously we're concerned about air conditioning and the elevators and all of the other things that we did without during the outage, but I think we have a serious potential public health problem if we run into another problem with sewage treatment,'' Galanter said. A backup power system failed to prevent the discharge Saturday from the Hyperion waste treatment plant. The discharge triggered the shutdown of a 10-mile stretch of beach that reopened Monday. |
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