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Resilient Los Angeles Craig A. Davis, Ph.D., PE, GE Water System Resilience Program Manager Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
Resilient Los AngelesCraig A. Davis, Ph.D., PE, GEWater System Resilience Program ManagerLos Angeles Department of Water and Power
1994 L.A. Water Delivery Services
❖ 159,434 service connection outages❖ 22% of all services ~670,000 residents❖ Deployed water tankers at 15 locations
1994 L.A. Water Delivery Services
Impacts - LADWP Water System
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Granada High Tank I/O Lines
LA Reservoir Tower Bridge
What has changed since 1994 Impacting Water System Resilience?
• Technologies and modeling capabilities• Research advancements• Perceptions and understandings of community resilience• Addressing the time component of response and recovery as
part of project mitigation • Understanding that needed performance goes beyond life
safety and must include socio-economic impacts• ShakeOut Scenario drawing attention to value of water
systems• Resilience by Design• Resilient Los Angeles
March 2018
Dec. 2014
What are We Doing?• Resilience Management• Resilience and Sustainability• Performance Based Seismic Design• Crating a Seismic Resilient Pipeline
Network• Resilient Water Supply Task Force• Fire Following Earthquake
