…cause you’re just not worth it, Silver Lake!*

I called Councilman LaBonge’s office on April 11 and left a message for Jullian Harris-Calvin. I also sent 2 emails to him. We both missed once, and then she never called me back for 10 days. She called me on April 25, Friday, at 5:30 PM from her car. UH-OH on her end! I was home!!

All sorts of pre-planned, party line bs. She said Silver Lake will be filled within the next 2 weeks – no later than mid June. Hoping for June 1. Why the delay? It had to “dry out,” like a washcloth. Why, they have a letter from the state commending them! She’d send it to me!

She didn’t!

She isn’t sure what they are doing in the big hole now…probably something important… but would have Marty Adams, “some kind of scientist” at LADWP call me. They’re “on target!”, she laughed.

Why will Ivanhoe have 3 million HDPE bird balls thrown in them and not the far bigger slk? She’d have Marty, “some kind of scientist,” explain that complicated stuff to me, she chirped. But she added with a giggle:

The department ordered every produced bird ball in the country! – the entire production supply for the next 3 months! There were no bird balls left, and it was too expensive to put it in slk, too!

(This means of course that Ivanhoe will get the safer water (if you don’t mind a little HDPE in your drink) and Silver Lake will get the water that could have bromate in it.)

I have heard LaBonge say at least twice, in person, and also in print, “slk will never go empty. We will never let it go out of service or be drained. It’s just too important for fires in gp alone.”

Liar, liar, pants on fire.

*PS. Did I mention that LaBonge worked for the dwp doing PR right before he became Councilman? How about that!