The Board of Water and Power voted to retain the L.A. firm Munger, Tolles & Olson to investigate claims related to the ...

In late January 2024, after a series of rainstorms, a DWP property manager spotted a tear in the reservoir’s floating cover, ...

The 117-million-gallon Santa Ynez Reservoir in the fire-ravaged Pacific Palisades neighborhood was empty and undergoing fixes to its torn cover when the historic blaze started ravaging the region ...

The 117-million-gallon Santa Ynez Reservoir was empty when the still-raging wildfires in Los Angeles County, California ignited last week. Drone footage recorded on January 12 shows the reservoir ...

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power plans to hire an independent engineer to assess whether an empty reservoir contributed to the failure of its water system during the Palisades Fire, when ...

Some are questioning why the Santa Ynez reservoir, located in the Palisades Highlands, was offline during the firefight. The reservoir has a capacity of holding 117 million gallons of water.

Amongst the chaos and devastating losses that marked the beginning of 2025, one pressing question lingers for the residents of Los Angeles: Why was the Santa Ynez Reservoir empty during California’s ...

But Vance’s description of decades-long dry reservoirs is misleading. Experts on California’s water management told us they were not aware of any major reservoir that has been dry for 15 years or more ...

The Santa Ynez Reservoir, a 117-million-gallon water resource near the Pacific Palisades, was under renovation and empty when fires tore through the Los Angeles neighborhood last week and ...

The lawsuit centered on the Santa Ynez Reservoir, a 117-million-gallon water storage complex that is part of the Los Angeles water supply, which was out of commission for repairs when the fires ...

To accommodate growth in Pacific Palisades, they built a reservoir in Santa Ynez Canyon, as well as a pumping station "to increase fire protection," as the L.A. Department of Water and Power's ...

To accommodate growth in Pacific Palisades, they built a reservoir in Santa Ynez Canyon, as well as a pumping station “to increase fire protection,” as the L.A. Department of Water and Power ...