The decision will adopt local alerts from the National Weather Service as a 'trigger' for suspending utility shut-offs due to nonpayment during extreme heat and cold weather events
, the board of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power on Tuesday voted in favor of a resolution that will cease water and power shut-offs due to nonpayment during extreme weather events.
Alerts from the weather service, by contrast, assess not only temperature but also other health risk factors such as relative humidity, heat duration in the summer, hypothermia risks in the winter, and average temperatures for the location, the agency said. The system will monitor eight alerts ranging from excessive heat warnings down to hard freeze warnings, and will pause shut-offs in service districts where an alert has been issued, Estela Tieman, DWP’s director of customer service operations, said during a presentation to the board. Shut-offs would still be permissible in situations involving fraud, theft or public safety.
“We are a community that has been greatly impacted,” said Gloria Salinas, a South L.A. resident and member of the advocacy group SCOPE, who addressed the board in Spanish. She noted thathave left the area particularly vulnerable to climate change. Between 2017 and 2022, the previous 100-degree threshold applied to between one and 34 days a year, the agency said. Under the new system, weather service triggers will probably apply to between 17 and 36 days of the year, with up to 72 hours of advance warning.
The proposal may also help provide the weather service with additional data points from within the service area, Reed said, as the DWP will explore whether meteorological data captured by its own systems can be shared with the agency.“We recognize this is an important first step that must take place today,” said Diana Umana, community organizer with the RePower Coalition.
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