Hollydale Regional Park Location: 5400 Monroe Ave, South Gate, CA 90280 Amigos de los Rios has partnered with City of South Gate to enhance and transform this traditional Los Angeles River Adjacent Park into a key feature area along the regional greenway network. The former grass landscape of the park has based transformed into a native plant landscape to celebrate…
Join Senator Bob Hertzberg, Andy Lipkis (TreePeople) and Mark Gold (Health the Bay) for a roundtable discussion about drought, conservation and stormwater. Please RSVP at 818.901.5586 by August 14th. Limited Seating! Light refreshments will be provided.
Sun Valley Park Drain and Infiltration System Location: 8133 Vineland Ave, Sun Valley, CA 91352 The Sun Valley Park Drain and Infiltration System Project is a pilot project completed in 2006 by the Los Angeles County Flood Control District. The project alleviates flooding in the 21-acre residential area near the project. A storm drain system along Cantara Street captures stormwater and delivers…
Franklin D. Roosevelt Park Regional Stormwater Capture Project Location: 7600 Graham Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90001 The Franklin D. Roosevelt Park Regional Stormwater Capture Project will collect dry weather runoff and stormwater from approximately 200 acres of the unincorporated community of Florence-Firestone. The project proposes to construct new drains to take water from the existing Glen Avenue Drain, remove trash and…
Elmer Avenue Neighborhood Location: 7700 block of Elmer Avenue, Los Angeles, CA The Elmer Avenue Neighborhood retrofit project incorporates stormwater capture technologies that provide multiple benefits on both private and public property. The homes that line the street were retrofitted with bioswales, rain barrels, drought tolerant planting palettes, and permeable pavers, while the public street incorporated under-street infiltration galleries and catch…
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.
