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The San Fernando Groundwater Basin (San Fernando Basin [SFB]) provides an important source of groundwater supply for the Cities of Los Angeles, Burbank, and Glendale. The SFB acts as a large, natural underground water reservoir.

LADWP completed construction of 25 groundwater monitoring wells in various areas of the easterly portion of the San Fernando Valley. These new wells, along with a network of more than 70 existing wells, are being used to characterize the basin’s groundwater quality and develop a complex of comprehensive groundwater remediation facilities for removing contamination from the city’s major well fields in the San Fernando Basin.

The Headworks Reservoir will replace the Silver Lake and Ivanhoe reservoirs located at the Silver Lake Reservoir Complex, for the purposes of safeguarding and improving drinking water quality.

A 144-inch diameter pipeline approximately 125 feet long will bring the water into the inlet channel of the UV building with a second similarly sized pipeline delivering the treated water back from the outlet channel into the water distribution network.

The new state-of-the-art LA Reservoir UV Disinfection Plant is an important investment in the reliability and safety of LA’s drinking water infrastructure, greatly enhancing LADWP’s mission to deliver pure, clean refreshing tap water to our customers in an efficient and publicly responsible manner.

The Lower Franklin Reservoir No. 2 (LFR2) is a major storage facility in the LADWP’s drinking water system. This reservoir is covered by an existing floating cover that was installed in 1989 to maintain water quality by minimizing exposure to the environment. The existing floating cover is reaching the end of its service life. Under this project, the existing floating cover will be replaced and additional modifications to the reservoir’s inlet and outlet facilities will be made to improve reservoir circulation, water quality, and operations and maintenance.

The Mission Wells Facility is located in the northeast San Fernando Valley community of Sylmar at 12331 Havana Avenue, Los Angeles, California.

Mission Wells Chloramination Station Project will a new facility that will replace the current chlorine system and will provide chloramine disinfection to the groundwater supply distributed by the Mission Wells Facility.