LADWP
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Fountain of youth in Fern Dell?!
Made a great discovery for my first blog post in the LA Weekly! And I didn’t get any comments, but I got 3 tweets, which was nice. L.A. mystery: Fountain of Youth natural spring in Griffith Park? Did Fern Dell residents living along the southern edge of Griffith Park find a Fountain of Youth? The mystery surfaced in the heat of mid-August, when the nearby American Film Institute (whose headquarters are located near Griffith Park), Immaculate Heart High School and two homeowners found water leaking into inappropriate areas. The Department of Water and Power insists its pipes — recently bursting and creating sinkholes in other parts of L.A. — are…
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The LADWP almost ruined my dinner plans.
I hate the annual Christmas Light Festival in Griffith Park. The idea that the cash-poor city of Los Angeles decides that wasting tons of electricity is the best way to celebrate Christmas is almost as obnoxious as the truly knockout fumes from the cars if you get stuck in traffic there. Or the traffic snarls for hours on the 5 going South, as the lineup of cars snakes out of the park every night. For many years I’ve had to avoid going anywhere in the valley for 6 weeks a year, as the traffic jam coming home, sometimes for miles, just isn’t worth it. Here’s a link to the DWP…
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This is what a million dollars looks like.
This black mass in Silver Lake is millions of bird balls, made with big oil, from Exxon or Mobil. Hundreds of thousands of LA residents will drink this water. Black bird balls fill Ivanhoe Reservoir; only one corner of clear open water remains, until they get more bags. These are untested HDPE plastic balls, cooking in the sun. They are unrecycled plastic, and 95% of this plastic is never recycled after use, either. LA dwp filled Ivanhoe Reservoir in Silver Lake with plastic balls which have NOT been tested properly. The LADWP has lied about this. These bird balls will leach in the water for at least 4 years. These…
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Plastic, plastic, everywhere, and not a drop to drink.
Ever wonder why water in bottles has an expiration date? It’s the plastic. It does bad things as it dissolves. Heard John and Ken talking about it this afternoon, while discussing emergency earthquake supplies. Not only do you have to keep checking the batteries and canned goods – should you go the nervous ant-like way of even having earthquake supplies – and I’m not saying which way I roll, cause maybe I’m a selfish ant – you gotta keep changing the water, too. Of course, this doesn’t concern the DWP, or the City of LA, or H. David Nahai, or Mayor V., as proven by the tons of HDPE plastic…