The spirit of collaboration was on full display today as LVMWD Board of Directors and staff joined our regional partners Calleguas, LADWP and MWD to celebrate the groundbreaking of the Metropolitan Water District’s Sepulveda Feeder Pump Station project.

 LVMWD Board members Andy Coradeschi, President; Jay Lewitt, Vice President and District's representative to the Board of Directors for MWD; Gary Burns, Secretary; and Randy Levine, Treasurer; and Len Polan, District 4 Director; as well as LVMWD General Manager Dave Pedersen and Assistant General Manager Joe McDermott, were also in attendance, signaling the importance of this project and our commitment to regional partnerships as we continue to build a water supply future of abundance.

 Lewitt spoke at the groundbreaking, sharing with the crowd that “Today’s groundbreaking represents more than a construction project — it represents a long-term investment in reliability for the water agencies here in Southern California that depend on the State Water Project. “He went on to tell LVMWD’s story of the drastic 74% mandatory reductions that we faced in 2021. “That level of reduction had tremendous impacts that were deeply felt by our communities.”

When complete, the Sepulveda Feeder will provide LVMWD with access to Metropolitan’s common pool of water supplies in the Los Angeles Basin, fundamentally improving the resilience of our service area during a State Water Project shortage.