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Good riddance to LADWP CEO Janisse Quiñones

Good riddance to Department of Water and Power (LADWP) CEO Janisse Quiñones, the official who left a local reservoir dry before the devastating Palisades Fire in January 2025.

Quiñones joined LADWP in May 2024. On paper, she was qualified. In practice: a disaster.

She is leaving her $750,000-per-year job to take over as CEO of Puerto Rico’s power grid, LUMA.

One feels bad for the people of Puerto Rico: Haven’t they suffered enough?

The 117-million-gallon Santa Ynez Reservoir above Pacific Palisades was already empty when Quiñones took over at LADWP. But she took no action to finish the repairs or refill the reservoir — not even after a December blaze in Malibu highlighted the urgent need for an emergency store of water.

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The reservoir above Palisades had been built in the 1960s precisely because of the risk of wildfires in the Santa Monica Mountains, along........

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