One of the major complaints by Los Angeles residents to the fires that ravaged the city earlier this year is that the nearby Santa Ynez Reservoir was empty and therefore unable to provide water for firefighting.
My correction of author's 700' depth to 325' is ALSO incorrect! Yes, I screwed that up, with only a little help from Google AI. Sorry, and thanks to author Llewellyn Jones for engaging & causing me to verify...]
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Go look at the multiple pictures in MSM labeled as "Pacific Palisades" and "Santa Ynez Reservoirs", many are mis labeled, many more presented as being the current state at time of fire showing no water (or very little) were taken years before the recent fire.
BTW, the Santa Ynez Reservoir has a maximum depth of 325 feet, not 700'.
Alternative media can be just as useless and full of shit as MSM.
Where’d you get the 325’ number? If it’s a calculation from reservoir area (9.2 acres), you might be forgetting about space taken up by the tower walls inside.
My apologies for the 325' number, which came from Google AI and I SHOULD have verified! However? Your 700' (or 725') number is designed head height (pressure related) not functional reservoir depth- Which is rather less...
The maximum water depth is 69'. The maximum water surface level is 720' above sea level. The designed operating depth is 700' above Sea level.
[(Edit, 4/26/25)
My correction of author's 700' depth to 325' is ALSO incorrect! Yes, I screwed that up, with only a little help from Google AI. Sorry, and thanks to author Llewellyn Jones for engaging & causing me to verify...]
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Go look at the multiple pictures in MSM labeled as "Pacific Palisades" and "Santa Ynez Reservoirs", many are mis labeled, many more presented as being the current state at time of fire showing no water (or very little) were taken years before the recent fire.
BTW, the Santa Ynez Reservoir has a maximum depth of 325 feet, not 700'.
Alternative media can be just as useless and full of shit as MSM.
Where’d you get the 325’ number? If it’s a calculation from reservoir area (9.2 acres), you might be forgetting about space taken up by the tower walls inside.
@Llewellyn Jones
Do we agree that below link is the Santa Ynez Reservoir next to Pacific Palisades, which was claimed at time of fire to be empty?
https://maps.app.goo.gl/bLwqKVSVP2agBEFf6
See "Background" section on Attachment A of this engineering report PDF:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.laparks.org/sites/default/files/pdf/commissioner/2011/sep07/11-237.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiS98eGzvaMAxVNvokEHWRbN1QQFnoECB8QAQ&usg=AOvVaw1Ve1L_O5f3E10Vxf-lrAEB
My apologies for the 325' number, which came from Google AI and I SHOULD have verified! However? Your 700' (or 725') number is designed head height (pressure related) not functional reservoir depth- Which is rather less...
The maximum water depth is 69'. The maximum water surface level is 720' above sea level. The designed operating depth is 700' above Sea level.