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The wait is finally over for city of Los Angeles residents wanting to comply with California's food waste mandate.. The Bureau of Sanitation announced Jan. 16 that residents citywide should ...
Three years after a massive spill at a Los Angeles wastewater facility sent millions of gallons of sewage into Santa Monica Bay, the city has agreed to spend more than $20 million on improvements ...
Los Angeles City Sanitation (LASAN) operates the largest wastewater collection system in the US, serving a population of four million within a 600 square miles (1,600 km 2) service area. The city's more than 6,700 miles (10,800 km) of public sewers convey 400 million gallons per day of flow from customers to its four plants. [2]
Following a massive sewage spill in 2021, the Environmental Protection Agency has ordered improvements at the Hyperion water treatment plant in Playa del Rey.
This would mark the first time Los Angeles uses treated, recycled waste water as drinking water. The city currently imports 90% of its water from regional sources, and pumps its treated wastewater into the Los Angeles River. The new facilities are part of the larger Pure Water Los Angeles project to recycle 100% of the city's wastewater by 2035.
A Los Angeles County Department of Public Works sign along 7th Street in downtown Los Angeles. The department was formed in 1985 in a consolidation of the county Road Department, the Flood Control District (in charge of dams, spreading grounds, and channels), and the County Engineer (in charge of building safety, land survey, waterworks).
Behind other cities, Los Angeles is moving ahead with its residential composting program, an effort to spare landfills and reduce methane emissions. Behind other cities, Los Angeles is moving ...
City of Los Angeles departments such as LA Sanitation, the Los Angeles Police Department, and City housing agencies work together to facilitate encampment sweeps under the guise of "environmental and public health protections". During sweeps, sanitation and police departments seize unhoused individuals' belongings and force mobility.