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Officials are bracing for the return of fierce Santa Ana winds as they try to contain large blazes in the Los Angeles area. Here's the latest. ... The LADWP, the largest U.S. municipal utility ...
Water systems experts said that with extreme Santa Ana winds that prevented the use of planes and helicopters, the Palisades fire was impossible to control, and municipal water systems aren't ...
Santa Ana (Spanish for ' Saint Anne ') is a city in and the county seat of Orange County, California, United States.Located in the Greater Los Angeles region of Southern California, the city's population was 310,227 at the 2020 census.
Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag, along with several other Pacific Palisades property owners, sue the city of L.A. and L.A.'s DWP after fire took their homes.
Southern California Edison (SCE), the largest subsidiary of Edison International, is the primary electric utility company for much of Southern California.It provides 15 million people with electricity across a service territory of approximately 50,000 square miles.
A number of organizations have been formed to try to gain public interest in restoring the river. One of the most prominent [according to whom?] is the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority (SAWPA), formed by five municipal water districts in the Santa Ana River area. A second one is the Santa Ana River Dischargers Association.
Aerial view of the Santa Ana River and the dam. Seven Oaks Dam is a 2,980-foot (910 m) long arched embankment structure standing 550 feet (170 m) high above the Santa Ana River and 650 feet (200 m) above its deepest foundations. The dam is 40 feet (12 m) wide at the crest and over 2,200 feet (670 m) wide at the base.
The Santa Ana winds form in a western area of the country known as the Great Basin, which includes Nevada and part of Utah. The basin sits at a higher elevation than Southern California.