Residents of Pasadena, La Canada/Flintridge, La Crescenta and Altadena are  being urged to conserve water during an upcoming eight-day shutdown of the  regional water line.

Beginning Thursday morning, Feb. 21, the Metropolitan Water District of  Southern California will take its upper feeder out of service to make necessary  around-the-clock upgrades.

The work is scheduled to take eight days, cutting off imported water  deliveries serving up to 250,000 people.

For the shutdown, water officials are asking residents in selected  communities to suspend outdoor watering and non-essential indoor water use in  order to extend local supplies.

“In preparation for this shutdown, which is going to go for eight-days, we  have filled-up all of our reservoirs. We have sixteen reservoirs in the city,” said Phillis Currie of Pasadena Water and Power.

Currie said the agency is fully prepared to support the communities indoor  water needs, but is asking everyone to hold off on outdoor water  use.

 

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