Faction Sheet on Current Water News

Document: News from The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, Fact Sheet on Current Water News - Spring, 1965, March 22, 1965, page 7-2- feeder with the District's existing treatment plants at La Verne in Los Angeles County and near Yorba Linda in Orange County. Another new treatment plant is planned for construction in the Pasadena area after about 1980. The Foothill Feeder will consist mainly of tunnels as much as 20 feet in diameter with some of them more than seven miles long. Contracts for parts of the Feeder will be let this year. These will be financed out of the District's general fund and its existing bonding capacity. Another basic feature of the proposed new system will be a line called the Second Lower Feeder which will extend from the existing treatment plant near Yorba Linda southwest to the vicinity of Anaheim and then west through northern Long Beach to Torrance, with connections along the way to reinforce service from existing MWD pipelines. A third new large-capacity distribution line designated the Sepulveda Feeder will head south from the Balboa treatment plant. After crossing the San Fernando Valley, it will extend by tunnel through the Santa Monica Mountains and then across the Santa Monica Bay area to the Palos Verdes Hills, again with connections to existing lines. The Sepulveda Feeder System will also include lateral pipelines extending both to the southeast to serve Burbank and Glendale and to the west to serve District agencies in northwestern Los Angeles County and in Ventura County. Still another major construction project outlined in the report will be the Inland Feeder System which may include a third new treatment plant southeast of the city of Riverside. The plant would be supplied initially through a connection with the East Branch of the California Aqueduct. The main Inland Feeder will start at Rialto at a junction with the Foothill Feeder, extend south to the Riverside treatment plant, then southeast to Perris Reservoir, terminus of the East Branch Aqueduct. A line will also run west from the treatment plant to the Corona area. Also an integral part of the Inland Feeder will be a line reaching east from Perris Reservoir to connect with the MWD's existing San Diego Aqueduct near San Jacinto. This aqueduct has sufficient capacity for its first 20 miles from San Jacinto to Auld Valley to handle the Northern water. However, from Auld Valley, where a reservoir is planned, a new 20-mile-long pipeline will be built to connect with the facilities of the San Diego County Water Authority south of the county boundary. # # # (SEE ATTACHED MAP OF PROPOSED NEW DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM.) 3/22/65Epson Perfection 4870 Photo, 400 dpi, 8 bit, 1,540,735 byte