GLENDALE : Water Service From Reservoir Is Restored
City officials have restored water service from Diederich Reservoir, Glendale’s largest of 30 such storage sites, after it was shut down earlier this week because of concerns over water quality.
The shutdown, from Sunday through most of Tuesday, affected customers in central Glendale, east of Brand Boulevard and south of the Ventura Freeway, said Donald Froelich, water services administrator.
Froelich explained that the city normally receives 95% of its water from the Metropolitan Water District. The other 5% comes from stored water wells such as Diederich Reservoir, which holds 40 million gallons.
Glendale officials took Diederich Reservoir out of service because they discovered that the chlorine normally used to clean water was dissipating at the surface.
To compensate for the difference, officials used 100% of water from the Metropolitan Water District. That switch in pipes caused customers at times to receive trickles of water rather than the normal pressure, depending on how high demand was during the day, Froelich said.
Pipes from Diederich Reservoir were turned on again late Tuesday after state Department of Health Services officials reviewed water samples from the site and found no health hazard.
Froelich said more doses of chlorine will be added Tuesday.
“If there’s any substance in the water that shouldn’t be there, the chlorine should take care of it,” he said.
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