The firestorm is still in progress in Los Angeles, priorities first and foremost are saving of lives and property. The calamity in Los Angeles is still early in the situation, ongoing, and not yet under control, but some basic facts can be established at this point in time.
- Janisse Quiñones PE (She/Her) is the CEO and Chief Engineer at Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP).
- Janisse Quiñones was hired with a $750,000 Salary, nearly twice that of her predecessor.
- LADWP operates ten major active reservoirs and over 107 smaller storage facilities, all of which create operational flexibility to balance water supplies and customer demands.
- A key reservoir in the Pacific Palisades fire was inoperable.
- Multiple locations of the service area that Quinones oversees are a raging inferno and short on water for firefighters.
Water for the LADWP Service Area comes from the following sources:
- 73% is purchased water from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California (MWD) which is both an aqueduct to State Water Projects in upper California and the Colorado River Aqueduct.
- 15% is water from the Los Angeles Aqueduct which is fed from water close to the Nevada Border.
- 10% is local groundwater.
- 2% is recycled water.