Breonia Lindsey, Director of LADWP’s Water Distribution Division, was featured in the Los Angeles Sentinel as one of LADWP’s highest-ranking African American employees.
The Sentinel story, published June 10, 2021, describes how Lindsey worked his way up, starting in the trenches, digging holes to lay the pipes that make up L.A.’s water distribution system. In the early years of his career, Lindsey helped construct and maintain sections of the city’s more than 7,300 miles of pipeline.