Whitnall Highway Powerline Easement Location: Whitnall Highway from Vineland Avenue to Cahuenga Boulevard, North Hollywood, CA Located in the San Fernando Valley along Whitnall Highway from Vineland to Cahuenga, the Whitnall Highway Power Line Easement project captures stormwater to infiltrate and recharge the San Fernando groundwater basin. The project is anticipated to capture and recharge 110 acre-feet of stormwater annually,…
Ocean Friendly Garden – Culver City High School Location: 4401 Elenda Street, Culver City, CA 90230 The students at Culver City High worked together with West Basin Municipal Water District and other partners to create a 2,332 square-foot garden at the Robert Frost Auditorium. Replacing a planting palette dominated by ivy, the new ocean-friendly garden uses drought-tolerant plants that demand up…
Rory M. Shaw Wetlands Park Project Location: 5413 S Avalon Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90011 The Rory M. Shaw Wetlands Park Project is as collaborative effort by the Los Angeles County Flood Control District, the City of Los Angeles and the Sun Valley Watershed Stakeholders Group. The project’s objective is to retain stormwater runoff while increasing water conservation, recreational opportunities, and…
Bimini Slough Ecology Park Location: 184 S. Bimini Place, Los Angeles, CA 90004 The ¼ acre park will provide much needed open green space in Southeast Hollywood and provides stormwater capture opportunities. A 180 foot bio-filtration vegetated swale running across the park provides a system to capture and filter urban runoff that previously flowed untreated directly into a storm drain to…
Augustus F. Hawkins Natural Park Location: 5790 Compton Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90011 A collaborative effort between the community of South Central and three landscape architects from UC Berkeley, Lawrence Moss & Associates and the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy helped transform a polluted brownfield belonging to the LA Department of Water and Power into a 8.5 acre park. The park features…
The Los Angeles Times quoted Deborah Weinstein Bloome, senior policy director at TreePeople in a story about the county’s efforts to capture stormwater in the future.
KPCC reports on how the Los Angeles County Department of Water and Power plans to handle the record melting snowpack which is producing more runoff water than the Owens River watershed can handle.
KPCC featured Heal the Bay’s 2016-2017 Beach Report Card which ranked the state’s beaches based on how much harmful bacteria was found in the water from April 2016 through March. The report highlights this year’s storms and the impact they had on beach water quality, emphasizing the need for infrastructure to reuse polluted water instead of letting it flow out into the sea.
