South Los Angeles Wetlands Park

Posted: September 8th, 2012

The South Los Angeles Wetlands Park transformed a 9-acre underutilized maintenance yard into a community park. The park provides much-needed green space in a park-poor community, while the functional wetlands treat and clean runoff from the surrounding community before it enters the Los Angeles River and eventually the ocean.

This multibenefit park and clean water project was undertaken as part of the Clean Water Justice settlement to eliminate sewer spills in the Baldwin Hills, South Central Los Angeles, Highland Park and Glassell Park, and improve the sewer system city wide.

The settlement has also provided funding for the North Atwater Creek Restoration and Park Expansion and the Garvanza Park Stormwater BMP Project as part of the greening the Los Angeles River for all.