The LADWP Water System is the largest municipally owned and operated retail water utility in the country. Its mission is to provide customers with reliable, high quality and competitively priced water services in a safe, public, and environmentally responsible manner.
The Water System’s Capital Improvement Program is a ten-year plan focused on maintaining or replacing existing components of the Water System, and constructing new facilities to ensure LADWP fulfills its mission of providing reliable and high quality water to the residents of Los Angeles.
Many facilities pre-date World War II and are near the end of their useful lives. In addition to aging infrastructure, existing and anticipated changes in state and federal water quality regulations affect the way LADWP stores and treats water that arrives at the tap. LADWP is responding to these changes and improving its water quality by eliminating dependence on large in-city open reservoirs. LADWP is also instituting more comprehensive monitoring programs to ensure that the water delivered is the highest quality and meets all state and federal drinking water regulations.
Our Capital Improvement Program is divided into four major sections:
- Infrastructure Reliability
- Water Supply
- Regulatory Compliance
- Other Strategic Activities
LADWP has developed the Water Infrastructure Plan to establish the goals and targets for replacing and/or upgrading infrastructure.
To download the latest Ten Year Capital Plan, click on the below. Please note that this is a large file and will take some time to download.
Water Projects
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Lower Franklin Reservoir No. 2 Floating Cover Replacement
The Lower Franklin Reservoir No. 2 (LFR2) is a major storage facility in the LADWP’s drinking water system. This reservoir is covered by an existing floating cover that was installed in 1989 to maintain water quality by minimizing exposure to the environment. The existing floating cover is reaching the end of its service life. Under this project, the existing floating cover will be replaced and additional modifications to the reservoir’s inlet and outlet facilities will be made to improve reservoir circulation, water quality, and operations and maintenance.
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Lucile Pressure Regulator Station Rehabilitation Project
LADWP will upgrade the Lucile Pressure Regulator Station, which is an important part of water infrastructure in the West LA area.
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Machado Lake Pipeline Project
The Machado Lake Pipeline Project is an important water infrastructure investment that will bring recycled water to the local parks, oil refineries, and golf courses in the Harbor area for uses such as landscape irrigation and industrial processes. The project will install approximately 3,400 feet of pipeline to bring recycled water from the Terminal Island Water Reclamation Plant.
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Mason Ave and Victory Blvd Mainline Project
The Mason Ave and Victory Blvd Mainline Project is a part of LADWP’s plan to replace aging infrastructure in the system and expand LADWP’s seismic resiliency efforts.
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Mid-Valley Water Facility Project
LADWP is constructing a new Water System District Yard that will consolidate and provide critical functions in support of Water System operations throughout the San Fernando Valley.
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Mission Wells
The Mission Wells Facility is located in the northeast San Fernando Valley community of Sylmar at 12331 Havana Avenue, Los Angeles, California.
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Mission Wells Chloramination Station Project
Mission Wells Chloramination Station Project will a new facility that will replace the current chlorine system and will provide chloramine disinfection to the groundwater supply distributed by the Mission Wells Facility.
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MWD LA-29 Project
The MWD LA-29 included removal of 234 feet of existing 42-inch diameter welded steel pipe in Church Lane from Sunset Boulevard to north of Kiel Street and replacing it with 60-inch diameter welded steel pipe.
More Projects and Initiatives
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