L.A. Department of Water and Power officials blame the utility's backlog of repairs for high-priority items on poor oversight and planning.
Top officials at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power on Tuesday blamed poor oversight and planning to explain why power poles and other utility equipment flagged as unsafe have gone unrepaired in recent years.that the department launched an effort about three weeks ago to repair 1,600 of the utility’s most dangerous power poles.
In explaining the backlog, DWP officials told the board that a contractor was brought on to help the utility’s inspection program in 2021. Cynthia McClain-Hill, president of the Board of Water and Power Commissioners, asked Wilbur whether priority one tickets “were simply not prioritized?”DWP General Manager Marty Adams told the board that the department failed to use the list of the most urgent repairs to inform the order of work. “We’re trying to figure out exactly how that disconnect [was] allowed to happen,” Adams said.
“Beyond this, it makes us wonder what else is being missed?” Commissioner Nicole Neeman Brady said. “This is a massive issue in and of itself. And we should get into how and why it was missed.”
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