Inside the battle to restore drinking water in Altadena and Pacific Palisades
LA TimesThe Rubio Cañon Land & Water Assn.’s tiny Altadena office building had turned into a command post by early morning Jan. 8. Today, most Altadena and Pacific Palisades residents still don’t have clean drinking water, with “do not drink” and “do not boil” notices still in effect. Officials with Lincoln Avenue Water Co. guide California State Water Resources Control Board engineers on a tour of homes destroyed by the Eaton fire in Altadena on Wednesday. “It’s the scale that we’re working with,” said Jennifer Betancourt Torres, general manager of Lincoln Avenue Water Co., one of Altadena’s other small water utilities. Out of Altadena’s three primary water utilities, Rubio Cañon has identified benzene in six samples, and Lincoln Avenue has found the carcinogen at 20 damaged or destroyed homes.
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