The water challenges facing the Los Angeles region are experienced differently in different communities across the County. The Prevention Institute’s report on water, health and equity dives into the burdens of inequitable access to safe, clean and reliable water low-income communities of color are facing. Read the full report here.
LA StormCatcher – 6th Avenue Location: 6th Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90018 This residence located on the block of 6th Avenue participated in The Collaborative’s StormCatcher Project (#LAStormCatcher) which retrofitted pilot homes with large tanks (cisterns) and rain gardens to demonstrate how Angelenos can secure a climate-resilient future by capturing stormwater at home. Although cisterns aren’t used widely locally, they…
LA StormCatcher – Marilla Street Location: Marilla Street, Northridge, CA 91325 This residence located on the block of Marilla Street participated in The Collaborative’s StormCatcher Project (#LAStormCatcher) which retrofitted pilot homes with large tanks (cisterns) and rain gardens to demonstrate how Angelenos can secure a climate-resilient future by capturing stormwater at home. Although cisterns aren’t used widely locally, they are an…
Avalon Green Alley Network – Phase 1 Location: Between W 53rd Street and W 54th street and Main Street and San Pedro Street, Los Angeles, CA 90037 The Avalon Project will transform six alley segments that create a network and a connection between residential homes and community amenities, including the local schools, parks and local grocery store. The multi-benefit Avalon Green Alley Network…
Chatsworth Station Parking Lot Location: 10040 Old Depot Plaza Road, Chatsworth, CA 91311 Located at 10046 Old Depot Plaza, this Metrolink stormwater capture project was implemented to better manage stormwater runoff from a newly added section of the parking lot. A long, narrow bioswale planted with native grasses captures and filters the pollutants found in stormwater run-off. Once the water is…
Innovation Village at Cal Poly Pomona Location: 3 Innovation Way, Pomona, CA 91768 For more information, please visit: ASLA.org
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…
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.
