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Generation Earth Is Bettering A Watershed Near You!
Jan 27th
Clean water is a team effort and Generation Earth is helping the LA Stormwater Program’s efforts in educating our City by providing kids and teachers with the opportunity to become engaged in their local communities and schools.
Generation Earth, an environmental education program of the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works, organizes Water Pollution Prevention Workshops in different areas of the City. These free events aim to help participants understand the dynamics of our urban watersheds.
Through localized restoration projects, teachers and students may install rain barrels, participate in a river cleanup or pick up trash along a streambed. All in all, the program is a direct way to allow people to become directly engaged and improve the health of their watersheds.
On February 11, TreePeople, which organizes Generation Earth’s projects, will be holding a Water Pollution Prevention Workshop in Beverly Hills. The half-day event is open to teachers, students and non-formal educators who are interested in organizing an event in their community.
For more information about Generation Earth’s February outing, or another Water Pollution Prevention Workshop to be held in Norwalk on March 3, please contact Loyda Ramos at 310-623-4856 or lramos@treepeople.org.
*Photo courtesy of Generation Earth.
Make Your Garden Ocean Friendly – A Chat with Surfrider Foundation’s Paul Herzog
Aug 4th
Paul Herzog works for Surfrider Foundation and is the National Coordinator for their Ocean Friendly Garden Program. The LA Stormwater Program recently caught up with Paul to discuss the program he oversees and glean a little insight on how to make our yards and gardens friendlier to our waterways.
LA Stormwater: Hi Paul! Can you explain how exactly runoff from gardens impact local water quality?
Paul Herzog: Runoff is the number one source of pollution in our local creeks, rivers and oceans. Water running off landscapes from sprinkler overspray or rain gutters directed to the driveway gets into the street gutters and is carried to ocean. It takes with it landscape chemicals and fertilizers, pollutants from car exhaust and oil, dog poop and other stuff. People that swim in these waters may get sick. We’re told that we are supposed to stay out of the ocean for 72 hours after a storm – but that’s often the best time to surf. This can affect the economy. If the ocean near where we live or where people want to vacation is thought to be polluted, many may simply stay away. People may also decide not to eat locally-caught fish.
Maintaining an Ocean Friendly Garden at home, work More >
Two Upcoming Public Meetings to Discuss City Restoration Efforts
Jul 14th
1. Proposition O Citizens Advisory Committee Meeting
Wednesday July 15, 2009
2:00 p.m.
City Hall East, 15th Floor Room 1500 200 North Main Street Los Angeles, CA 90012
Projects discussed will include:
- Inner Cabrillo Beach Bacterial Water Quality Improvement project
- Westchester Stormwater BMP project
- Allocation of available Prop O funds
For more information, visit www.lapropo.org or contact: Mark Tullai – (213) 473-7567 /Charles Modica – (213) 473-5704
2. Los Angeles River Revitalization Update and Design Project Workshop Tuesday, July 28, 2009 Meeting One: 1:00 to 3:00 pm Meeting Two: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Los Angeles River Center and Gardens The Atrium in the California Building 570 W. Avenue 26 Los Angeles, CA 90065
Additional Information:
Join us to discuss implementation of the Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan (LARRMP) and to share your input on possibilities for future River projects. To accommodate diverse schedules, two duplicate meetings will be held on the same day—one in the afternoon and one in the evening.
UPDATE/WORKSHOP MEETING GOALS Our two goals are (1) to provide brief updates of various projects and other activities related to the City’s River revitalization efforts and (2) to gather input on future project possibilities through an interactive workshop.
The meetings will first provide updates on current projects (by staff from public agencies and other More >
City Invites All to Participate in LA River Metals Workshop II on July 1st
Jun 12th
Dear Team:
The City of Los Angeles invites you to participate as a stakeholder in the second workshop for the Los Angeles River Metals TMDL Implementation Plan, being developed for the City’s portion of the watershed.
The second workshop is scheduled for: Wednesday, July 1, 2009 1:00 to 3:00 PM Los Angeles River Center 570 West Avenue 26, #100
In this workshop, the main focus will be on the Identification of Best Management Practices (BMPs). Three major topics will be discussed: BMP selection strategy, identifying preliminary BMP sites, and watershed collaboration.
This Implementation Plan is being developed during 2009 to comply with urban runoff/stormwater management regulations established in the Metals TMDL for the Los Angeles River watershed.
Specific goals of the Implementation Plan include:
- Identify pollution hot spots and prioritize the drainage areas to be addressed;
- Identify Best Management Practices (BMPs) for reducing pollution in urban runoff and select and verify potential locations for implementation of BMPs; and
- Create an integrated implementation plan that incorporates other benefits whenever possible, such as increasing open space, creating green streets, and beneficially reusing stormwater.
Under the direction of the Watershed Protection Division, the Metals TMDL Implementation Plan will be completed in January 2010.
Please RSVP by June 26, 2009 to Seth Carr at More >
