Water supply in Antelope Valley to be reduced during system upgrades
Los Angeles County Waterworks Districts customers in Lancaster, western Palmdale, Lake Los Angeles and Acton will be affected. The disruption will last from Dec. 7 through Dec. 13.
Beginning Sunday, about 165,000 residents in the Antelope Valley and some nearby communities will have extremely limited water supply for a week because of system upgrades, according to officials at Los Angeles County's Waterworks Districts.
The reduced water supply will affect the agency's District 40 customers in Lancaster, western Palmdale, Lake Los Angeles and Acton.
The Quartz Hill Water Treatment Plant will completely shut down from 6 a.m. Dec. 7 through 6 a.m. Dec. 13 for planned upgrades and expansion work. Water supply will be reduced by 60% during the period, said Melinda Barrett, a spokeswoman for the Waterworks Districts.
The work marks the third and final phase of an improvement project that is expected to increase the capacity of the treatment plant to 90 million gallons of water a day, up from 65 million gallons daily, Barrett said.
Customers are being asked to adopt water-saving measures during the treatment plant shutdown. Up to 80% of water is used outdoors, so minimizing the watering of lawns, repairing broken sprinkler heads, fixing plumbing leaks and avoiding car washings is crucial, Barrett said.
Simmons is a Times staff writer.
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