Another cost of rebuilding after LA fires? Higher water bills.
It wasn’t just homes and wildlands that burned in the Eaton Fire. Vital drinking water infrastructure, like pump stations, storage tanks, and reservoirs, were among the wreckage. As the long-term damage to these water systems becomes clearer, so does the need to figure out how to cover the costs of the repairs. … The most impacted water systems by the Eaton Fire are in and around Altadena. According to the Foothill Municipal Water District, which takes water from the Metropolitan Water District (MWD) and sells it to systems in the San Gabriel Mountains, several local reservoirs have been damaged, some significantly.
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