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.