RESIDENTS WARNED TO BOIL WATER; QUARTZ HILL TAPS MAY GIVE RESIDUE FROM WELLS.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer Eight hundred people living in a 1.5 square-mile area of Quartz Hill have been warned to boil their tap water before drinking it following a mechanical problem at a water treatment plant. Because the mechanical problem halted the flow of California Aqueduct The California Aqueduct is a 444 mile (715 km)-long[1] aqueduct in the United States that carries water from Northern California to Southern California. water to the neighborhood, Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Waterworks waterworks: see water supply. District officials started up well pumps for a backup system Noun 1. backup system - a computer system for making backups ADP system, ADPS, automatic data processing system, computer system, computing system - a system of one or more computers and associated software with common storage , flushing out loose dirt and sediment from pipes that had not been used for several years. ``If no one has any ill effects, this will be a good experience,'' said Henry Roediger, area engineer with the Los Angeles County Waterworks District. ``It's a good test. I think we did everything well.'' County waterworks officials advised people living between Avenue L-8 and Avenue N and between 55th Street West and 65th Street West to boil their water or add chlorine tablets through Sunday afternoon. Los Angeles County Waterworks officials went door to door distributing advisory notices to residents between 9 p.m. and 11 p.m. Thursday and started up again at 8:30 a.m. Friday. The water service disruption, which started about 4 p.m. Thursday, was blamed on a faulty chemical feed pump a force pump for supplying water to a steam boiler, etc. See also: Feed at the Antelope Valley-East Kern Water Agency's Quartz Hill plant. The pump failed to disburse dis·burse tr.v. dis·bursed, dis·burs·ing, dis·burs·es To pay out, as from a fund; expend. See Synonyms at spend. [Obsolete French desbourser, from Old French desborser alum alum (ăl`əm), any one of a series of isomorphous double salts that are hydrated sulfates of a univalent cation (e.g., potassium, sodium, ammonium, cesium, or thallium) and a trivalent cation (e.g. to help settle suspended solids Suspended solids refers to small solid particles which remain in suspension in water as a colloid or due to the motion of the water. It is used as one indicator of water quality. in the water drawn from the aqueduct, said Wallace Spinarski, general manager at AVEK. Along with the feed-pump failure, an alarm system malfunctioned and failed to warn water officials in time to initiate a back-up system, forcing them to shut the plant down, officials said. ``We had to shut the plant down in order to prevent dirty water from getting out into the system,'' Spinarski said. ``Nothing left the plant that wasn't healthy.'' AVEK officials said the equipment problem was resolved overnight and they had restarted their water plant at 3 a.m. Service was fully restored by 9 a.m., officials said. After AVEK stopped supplying water, service was stopped to residents for about an hour until Los Angeles County Waterworks District turned to wells and stored water. But because the backup system has not been used for several years, officials said that the pipes also carried water with unsettled dirt particles. ``Some haven't been used for a while,'' said Roediger. ``It makes the water appear cloudy.'' At the Albertson's in Quartz Hill, officials said they were selling more bottled water than usual. |
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