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City Marks Completion of First Northeast LA Stormwater Capture Facility
Garvanza and Highland Park community members joined city officials to celebrate the completion of stormwater infrastructure and park enhancements at Garvanza Park. The green space was reopened after...
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Littering is Wrong, Too!
So what do littering, networking at a funeral and gas station sushi all have in common? They are all wrong according to a new ad campaign launched by Keep Los Angeles Beautiful in partnership with Keep...
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Santa Monica Baykeeper Stands Up for Clean Water
Liz Crosson joined Santa Monica Baykeeper as its executive director in May 2010, and her current work focuses on eliminating pollution and preventing the degradation of Southern California’s aquatic...
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Wet Pet Photo Contest Splashes Down
We smiled as they splashed in the waves! We grinned as they chased balls through the water! We chuckled as they scampered through rain puddles! Of course, we’re talking about the photos we received...
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Creating a Lasting Impression
The 2012 theme for American Public Works Association’s National Public Works Week (May 20 – 26) is “Public Works: Creating a Lasting Impression.” One such LA Stormwater project, located in the San...
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Time To Summerize LA!
Even though the official start of summer is June 21, here in Southern California, we all know that summer really begins on Memorial Day weekend. It’s the beginning of a fun-filled season packed with...
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LA Aqueduct Centennial Garden Breaks Ground
Los Angeles City Councilmember Tom LaBonge, LADWP’s Senior Assistant General Manager James McDaniel and community members convened on Friday, August 9 at the recently-renovated Mulholland Memorial...
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Raining Rhymes
Clouds gather Pitter patter Light flashes Thunder cracks Rainbow brilliance Against black The storm here in LA earlier this month reminded us that October is officially the beginning of the rainy...
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LA Aqueduct To Celebrate Centennial
Los Angeles was a very different place in 1900. Its population was 100,000 residents, having exploded from 11,000 in 1880. Bunker Hill, the site of LA’s current towering skyscrapers was home to...
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Historic Cascades Open For LA Aqueduct Centennial
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is opening The Cascades in Sylmar to the public in celebration of the Los Angeles Aqueduct’s Centennial. This rare opportunity will allow members of the...
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Flocking to the LA River, Part 2
By Joyce Amaro, LA Stormwater She swam confidently through the low-hanging bushes that edged the river. She eyed me and my zoom lens with suspicion and moved back into the shadows. I slowly crept...
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Plastic Bag Ban To Expand on July 1
Get ready to take your reusable bags to a new level in the coming days! Starting on July 1, 2014 Los Angeles will expand its current Single-Use Carryout Bag Ordinance to include smaller markets and...
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Eco Trip Tips For Your Home
Suitcases packed? Check! Plane, hotel and rental car reservations confirmed? Check! Family super excited about going on vacation? Check and check! Home ready to keep LA’s waterways clean and conserve...
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Thankful for Friends
by Joyce Amaro, LA Stormwater Earlier this month, we here at LA Stormwater had a Best Friends-themed weekend in more ways than one. Two of our staff members attended the NKLA Best Friends Super...
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University Park Rain Gardens To Grow
This coming spring and summer dozens of new gardens will begin growing in the University Park area of Los Angeles, but residents won’t be harvesting cucumbers, carrots and tomatoes from the soil in...
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Creating a Lasting Impression
The 2012 theme for American Public Works Association’s National Public Works Week (May 20 – 26) is “Public Works: Creating a Lasting Impression.” One such LA Stormwater project, located in the San...
View ArticleAvalon Green Alley Network Opens
California State Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer, along with Councilmember Curren D. Price, Jr. of the New 9th, Commissioner Heather Repenning of the Board of Public Works, and other city officials...
View ArticleTime For Hallow-Clean!
The Jack o’ lanterns have all been carved. The treats have all been given out. Now it’s time to make sure the Halloween festivities don’t turn into tricks for our local rivers, creeks and ocean. Here...
View ArticleIt’s Easy To Be Green
Drive through Los Angeles these days and you’re bound to notice something that we Angelenos haven’t seen in a long time – vibrant hills covered in emerald blankets of grass. The heavy rains of the last...
View ArticleStormwater Slam Dunk
March Madness is all around us, and like everyone else, we’re focused on college basketball’s Final Four! Here at LA Stormwater, we have our own Final Four… four stormwater capture projects that have...
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