{"id":536529,"date":"2026-01-23T07:44:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/536529\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T07:44:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:44:12","slug":"new-la-county-pumping-station-to-beat-gravity-and-ensure-water-delivery-during-drought-pasadena-star-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/536529\/","title":{"rendered":"New LA County pumping station to beat gravity and ensure water delivery during drought \u2013 Pasadena Star News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Los Angeles and Ventura county officials broke ground Wednesday on a $280 million pump station project<\/a> designed to ensure water<\/a> is available in Southern California communities that were hard hit during recent California droughts.<\/p>\n

The Sepulveda Feeder Pump Stations Project will allow the region\u2019s water wholesaler \u2014 the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California<\/a> \u2014 to divert water from the Colorado River and Diamond Valley Lake to communities that normally rely on State Water Project supplies. The project will ensure that when water supplies are limited, SWP-reliant communities will have access to water from other sources.<\/p>\n

When the project is completed in 2029, MWD will be able to deliver as much as 22,000 acre-feet of water to SWP-dependent areas during times of severe drought. An acre-foot of water is roughly 326,000 gallons, enough to serve about three families for a year.<\/p>\n

MWD officials said that during the 2020-22 drought, multiple communities in Los Angeles and Ventura counties had limited water due to cutbacks in the availability of State Water Project water supplies.<\/p>\n

\"ThisThis is how the Metropolitan Water District delivers water during normal years. (Graphic courtesy of MWD)
\n\"ThisThis is how the Metropolitan Water District delivers water during drought years. (Graphic courtesy of MWD)<\/p>\n

\u201cMetropolitan had never before imposed such strong reductions in water use on a portion of our service area. It was an unprecedented situation sparked by the hotter temperatures and more extreme droughts we are facing as the climate changes,\u201d MWD General Manager Shivaji Deshmukh said in a statement. \u201cWhen we saw the impacts of this historic drought on some portions of our service area, we committed to taking action to avoid this ever happening again.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pump station project will allow MWD to push water from the Colorado River and Diamond Valley Lake \u2014 the area\u2019s largest reservoir \u2014 to normally SWP-reliant communities in northern Los Angeles and southern Ventura counties.<\/p>\n

The pumps will essentially reverse the flow of water in the pipelines.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder normal circumstances, our system largely relies on gravity to deliver water. But we learned during the last drought that left some communities without access to available water. Now, we will have the ability to pump more water uphill when needed,\u201d Deshmukh said. \u201cSimply put, this project strengthens our ability to move water where it*s needed during droughts, during emergencies, and when major infrastructure must be taken out of service for maintenance or rehabilitation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Los Angeles and Ventura county officials broke ground Wednesday on a $280 million pump station project designed to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":536530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,16055,285,6772,746,2961,224,5337,237264,50,527],"class_list":{"0":"post-536529","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-news","11":"tag-climate-change","12":"tag-drought","13":"tag-environment","14":"tag-la","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-losangeles","17":"tag-metropolitan-water-district","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-water"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115943300414029860","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=536529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/536530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=536529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=536529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=536529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}