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4/22/2025
Sarah Thiessen
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Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
Restoring safe drinking water after the fires
Pacific Palisades - Potable water service is fully restored to the Pacific Palisades, tap water flowing safe again exactly two months from the date wildfires broke out. Drinking water distributed to the Palisades by Los Angeles Department of Water and Power quickly became subject to contamination as pressure dropped across the network and lines ruptured with the fires. Within a day, the Palisades was under a Boil Water Advisory. By Jan 10, a Do not Consume order was issued, anticipating dangerous chemicals from the firefighting efforts may have infiltrated the drinking water system.
From Palisades Water Quality Restoration Dashboard online,
"On Friday, January 10, 2025 the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) updated its local “Boil Water” Notice and issued a “Do Not Drink” Notice in response to the State Water Resources Control Board - Division of Drinking Water’s (CA-DDW) Wildfire Order. The notice affects most of the Pacific Palisades 90272 zip code and the LADWP service area immediately south of the 90272 zip code just north of San Vicente Blvd. The “Do Not Drink” Notice will remain in effect due to the significant damages caused by the fire and the loss of water pressure in the area. LADWP needs to test and confirm that contaminants from the wildfire conditions such as Benzene and other volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are not present in the water distribution system."
Benzene is a volatile organic hydrocarbon associated with cancer, gastrointestinal, hematological, immunological and neurological impacts. During the time of the Do Not Consume order, residents were advised not to heat the water for showers or bathing, for cleaning or dish-washing, as the heat accelerates the escape of benzene into the air. Being heavier than air, the toxic gas is inhaled.
Pacific Palisades drinking water was deemed potable on March 7, the Do Not Consume order was withdrawn. Residents were advised to flush lines and all plumbing prior to resuming use of the drinking water.
Drinking Water Facility Profile: Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
Compliance Status: Enforcement Priority: No violation identified
Owner: local government
Location: , CA
County: Los Angeles
Active Permit: CA1910067
System Type: community water system
Population Served: 3,856,04316900
Watershed: Los Angeles Region 4
Source: groundwater and surface water purchased from South California Metropolitan Water
Admin Contact: Patrick Kaspari 707-839-3251
Latest Compliance Inspections: Sanitary survey, complete: July 24, 2024 (State)
Significant Deficiencies in Finished Water Storage
The following information gathered from federal EPA pertains to the quarter ending Sep 30 2024 (data last refreshed on EPA database Jan 11, 2025)
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Non-compliant inspections
(of the previous 12 quarters)
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with Significant Violations
(of the previous 12 quarters)
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Informal
Enforcement Actions
(last 5 yrs)
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Formal
Enforcement Actions
(last 5 years)
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0 out of 12
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0 out of 12
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1
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Violations and non-compliance
No violations
*Note that drinking water information provided in this report is aggregated from the federal EPA database, state resources and local government sources where available.
EPA publishes violation and enforcement data quarterly, based on the inspection reports of the previous quarter. Water systems, states and EPA take up to three months to verify this data is accurate and complete.
Specific questions about your local water supply should be directed to the facility.
The EPA safe drinking water facilities data available to the public presents what is known to the government based upon the most recently available information for more than one million regulated facilities. EPA and states inspect a percentage of facilities each year, but many facilities, particularly smaller ones, may not have received a recent inspection. It is possible that facilities do have violations that have not yet been discovered, thus are shown as compliant in the system.
EPA cannot positively state that facilities without violations shown in ECHO are necessarily fully compliant with environmental laws. Additionally, some violations at smaller facilities do not need to be reported from the states to EPA. If ECHO shows a recent inspection and the facility is shown with no violations identified, users of the ECHO site can be more confident that the facility is in compliance with federal programs.
The compliance status of smaller facilities that have not had recent inspections or review by EPA or the states may be unknown or only available via state data systems.
See yellow tags on the front page map for boil water advisories, red for do not consume.
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