Encino : Water-Filtration Plant Vote Delayed Again
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The Los Angeles City Council has postponed until November discussion of a proposal to build a $250-million water-filtration plant in Mission Canyon, a defunct landfill in Sepulveda Pass.
The delay is the second in three months called to allow time for consideration of alternatives. Sepulveda Pass homeowner activists oppose the proposed plant, saying it would be an incompatible industrial use in the mountains and a waste of taxpayer money.
“This additional time is important to residents of the communities surrounding Mission Canyon,” Councilman Marvin Braude said in a news release this week. “They are concerned that building a filtration plant in their area may be unsafe, and they want additional time for the DWP [Department of Water and Power] to investigate alternate and more suitable locations.”
The delay was made possible when the DWP agreed to the postponement at Braude’s request. The filtration plant would clean impurities from water pumped from the Encino and Stone Canyon reservoirs.
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