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  2. Factbox-Utilities face increasing scrutiny in LA wildfires - AOL

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    The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), which runs the biggest publicly owned utility in the country, has also been criticized for its water and power management during the failed ...

  3. 'Completely dry': Why did Los Angeles firefighters run out of ...

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    According to The Associated Press, The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power was pumping from aqueducts and groundwater into the system, but "demand was so high that it wasn't enough to refill ...

  4. Los Angeles Department of Water and Power - Wikipedia

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    The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is the largest municipal utility in the United States with 8,100 megawatts of electric generating capacity (2021–2022) and delivering an average of 435 million gallons of water per day (487,000 acre-ft per year) to more than four million residents and local businesses in the City of Los Angeles and several adjacent cities and communities ...

  5. New fast-moving fire emerges as death toll from raging LA ...

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    The department's three water tanks, which hold about a million gallons each, ran out Wednesday morning, Janisse Quiñones, chief engineer for the Los Angeles Fire Department of Water and Power ...

  6. William Mulholland - Wikipedia

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    In 1937, two years after Mulholland's death, the Bureau of Water Works and Supply merged with the Bureau of Power and Light to form the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP); the agency continues to control, supply and maintain all the city's domestic services. [8] [9] The Second Los Angeles Aqueduct Cascades near Sylmar, Los Angeles

  7. Lankershim Arts Center - Wikipedia

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    The Department of Water and Power Building was designed by Charles S. Lee in the Streamline Moderne style in 1939. [2] Designed to be light and flamboyant, the building was originally a neighborhood administration office for the Department of Water and Power, and was built when the organization believed their buildings should be monumental symbols of a benevolent government role in daily life.

  8. Fire hydrants ran dry due extreme demand in Pacific Palisades ...

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    Janisse Quiñones, chief executive and chief engineer of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, said at a Wednesday press conference that all three 1-million-gallon water tanks in the area ...

  9. Scattergood Generating Station - Wikipedia

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    As of 1971, Unit 3 was projected to cost an additional $68 million but provide power for 10 percent of the city. [9] Between 2013 and 2015, the Department of Water and Power replaced the original Unit 3 “with a highly efficient combined cycle (natural gas and steam) turbine and two simple-cycle turbines.” [ 1 ]