The community celebrated the grand opening of the North Atwater Creek Restoration and Park Expansion project on April 12, 2012. The $4-million project regraded an 800-foot narrow open channel, reshaped it, and removed invasive plant species to improve water flow. Structural stormwater best management practices including a trash removal device and native vegetation improve water [...]

SoCal > Departures > Land of Sunshine > Green Justice > The Grass Roots Fight for Clean Water and Green Justice Share Green Justice The Grass Roots Fight for Clean Water and Green Justice by Robert Garcia on March 22, 2012 2:04 PM The City of Los Angeles is complying with the Clean Water Act [...]

Mark Williams writes: We share sad news with broken hearts and great sorrow that Reverend Eugene Williams III passed on Friday, March 16, 2012. We ask that no one send flowers. Our family needs your prayers and your patience more, while we mourn our father, our brother, our uncle, our grandfather, our friend, and our [...]

The Garvanza Park Stormwater BMP Project captures and cleans more than one million gallons of rain and runoff.  Water is diverted into two large cisterns under the park.  Water is cleaned and filtered and soaks into the soil to replenish the groundwater.  The other chamber stores water to  irrigate the park.  The project will help [...]

Fondos para este proyecto han sido provenidos en conexión con el acuerdo en forzamiento del Clean Water Act en Baldwin Hills y South Central Los Angeles.

Funding for this park project was part of the Clean Water Justice settlement in the Baldwin Hills and South Central Los Angeles.

Follow the lively discussion about perceptions of race, crime and parks generated by our KCET column about Baldwin Hills at Hidden Los Angeles’s facebook page.

SoCal > Departures > Land of Sunshine > Green Justice > The Baldwin Hills, Black L.A. and Green Justice Green Justice The Baldwin Hills, Black L.A. and Green Justice by Robert Garcia The Baldwin Hills is an epicenter of excellence in African American culture across the United States, along with Sugar Hill in Harlem and, now, the White House. Even so, black folks in Baldwin [...]

Soccer players warm up in the Baldwin Hills park. See The City Project’s policy report How to Keep Baldwin Hills Clean and Green for Generations to Come and the agreement to better protect human health and the environment in the Baldwin Hills.

The South Central Los Angeles Wetlands Park is funded in part through the settlement agreement resolving the Clean Water Justice action to improve the City of Los Angeles sewer system city wide. The action resulted in a $2 billion settlement agreement and court order in 2004. This work in and out of court is a best practice example [...]