DWP Indifference May Turn the Preserve into a Dust Bowl

I have lived adjacent to the Chatsworth Lake and/or Nature Preserve since 1986 and now am along the northern fenceline of the DWP property.  It is abundantly clear that DWP is not meeting its mandate to maintain the preserve.  DWP is not complying with brush clearance regulations as well.  Homeowners are taxed for brush inspections, however DWP is not fined for their clear non-compliance with brush removal requirements.  Random oak saplings are left to grow which will undermine fence lines and provide more combustible fuel should we have a 2005 brush fire redux.  THe water fowl will migrate to our pools creating maintenance and health issues.  The turtles will take leave of the habitat as well.  This is not the recipe for a burgeoning nature preserve. 
The Chatsworth Lake community has always taken a back seat when it comes to governmental services.  We have no sewers or natural gas lines, yet such services were provided to the Field Lab.  Basics are not really provided, including road maintenance.  Now the DWP wants to erect barriers to seemingly eliminate the ecology pond and its responsibilities to maintain the area.  How much water is consumed at Grand Park?  Where is LA City Parks and Recreation?  Why hasn't the preserve been taken over by the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy?  The preserve could be a bastion of nature as well as a teaching lab.  I have been a proponent for camera's to depict the day to day wildlife activities.  There is no reason a solar farm cannot be installed near the helicopter watering station. It is abundantly clear that the Nature Preserve is not going to be maintained and that this valuable resource is not going to be dedicated for now or in the future, while the DWP increases our utility costs and does not push reduction of costs through use of solar. Seems that our local politicians should be pressuring the DWP to meet its commitments instead of lauding their accomplishments on the Patch website.