Wasting Water DWP Style
drip, drip, drip
photo by Mayor Sam
The DWP wants to take over the solar industry in Los Angeles, thinking they can manage to produce an output of electricity from solar greater than the current total solar power generated in the US and yet, they can't even manage a dripping fire hydrant.Friday I ventured by a fire hydrant near Magnolia and Lankershim Boulevards in North Hollywood that was leaking rather significantly. So good citizen that I am I called the City's 311 line to report it and was told I would be referred to the DWP. After a while a very pleasant DWP representative came on the line and took my report. She then told me that another citizen had reported the very same dripping fire hydrant the day before. Apparently a DWP crew came to look at it but could not fix it. The representative said that the crew reported that it would take at least a week before the hydrant could be fixed. A week? This didn't look like a complicated repair, in fact it looked very similar to what anyone who has a leaky faucet would experience. If the DWP can't fix it, should we contact Mike Diamond's Smell Good Plumbers?
With restrictions on water usage and heavy penalties for wasting water recently imposed by the Mayor given our current water crisis, how is it the DWP has a series of leaking or cascading fire hydrants they can't repair? Besides the water waste, its a public safety issue if a hydrant is not in proper working condition.
It's time to do something about the DWP and the first thing to do is to fire E. WASTEWATER PLURIBUS himself under whose reign the DWP has slipped into a complete and total mess.
Labels: dwp, H. David Nahai, measure b, mike diamond smell good plumbers, wasting water, water conservation
Posted by Michael Higby @ 2/15/2009 02:00:00 AM
3 Comments:
Wow, a little harsh for a little drip. If you remember about changing a faucet washer, first you have to turn the water off. That's not a one-person job. Second, considering DWP salaries, do you want a crew out there on overtime for that dinky drip? Third, wouldn't it be better prioritized and scheduled. Mayor Sam, Measure B sucks, and big time, but don't minimize that massive fraud because you happened upon a dripping hydrant.
www.VoteNoMeasureB.com
Talk about waste, how much did that Mayor's Breakfast at the Westin cost the taxpayers on Saturday? We are in the worst economic crisis in history and Mayor is more concerned with his own image of photo ops then the hard working people of this city. That money could have been used to help families who are struggling. The city of LA is the only one NOT TO LAY OFF anyone or cut spending anywhere. I hope the Mayor candidates during their forums continue to pound on Villaraigosa's voting record on voting against hiring more cops when he was a councilman, bring up the Vignali Cocaine drug Lord he wrote a letter to support and is now the biggest real estate owner in downtown LA, his affair that humiliated his wife and kids to the entire Nation and his lack of accomplishments
Sam is a drip. This entire post is nothing more than the cheapest of shots. They should turn the hydrant off so it won't work at all if there was a fire?
Perhaps they should not notify people and businesses in the area before they turn the water off so they could fix this because Higby said so?
Maybe they should say to hell with the water main replacement downtown so we can run and fix a leaky hydrant. ONE leaky hydrant, not "a series" of them.
What a joke.
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