Blogs about: Urban Runoff
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Putting the Lid on LID
Despite tremendous turnout from the environmental community, the L.A. Board of Public Works today delayed its decision on a staff-proposed Low Impact Development ordinance for at least another month. … more →
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Putting the Lid on LID
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spoutingoff wrote 2 weeks ago: Despite tremendous turnout from the environmental community, the L.A. Board of Public Works today de … more →
Gateway Garbage
spoutingoff wrote 3 months ago: Will stimulus funds end lawsuits over cleaning L.A. River? Great news from last week. The Obama adm … more →
Street Smart
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spoutingoff wrote 4 months ago: Porous concrete at Bicknell project: hurricane-ready The City of Santa Monica has unveiled the green … more →
Victory in Ventura!
spoutingoff wrote 6 months ago: Ventura's new progressive stormwater permit bodes well for local wetlands and rivers After a gru … more →
Springs hope...eternally
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Jessica Hall wrote 7 months ago: Water bubbles up at Kuruvungna Springs in Los Angeles Spring relief drains in the Silverlake area. … more →
Stormwater Redux
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spoutingoff wrote 7 months ago: Clearer minds at L.A. City Hall prevailed Monday on the issue of raising stormwater fees. The city c … more →
Urban runoff?
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Jessica Hall wrote 7 months ago: Streams present and past, from Pacific Palisades to Bel Air. Blue streams are present, red are g … more →
WATER POLLUTION: Agricultural, industrial, and suburban runoff threatens nation’s water supply—pollution impacting our health and the environment—nation’s dwindling water quality highlighted in new documentary
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Buck Denton wrote 7 months ago: Poisoned Waters is a documentary by Frontline that investigates and reveals how certain human activi … more →
A Real Beach Bummer
spoutingoff wrote 7 months ago: Sewage has closed Tel Aviv beaches for 60 days Imagine this scenario. An old sewer line ruptures bec … more →
Neighborhood Sidewalk/Street Watering Survey
Matt Baumgardner, P.E. wrote 8 months ago: This is a little impromptu survey that I ran over the last two nights in my neighborhood. While walk … more →
Stormwater Factoid: City of Los Angeles
Matt Baumgardner, P.E. wrote 8 months ago: The City of Los Angeles generates over 100 million gallons of stormwater runoff a day during the wet … more →
Delusional Dubai
spoutingoff wrote 8 months ago: While skimming the Sunday Travel section in the Los Angeles Times, an article about a new resort in … more →
Tainted Legacy
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spoutingoff wrote 8 months ago: Good guys can wear black hats too… Last night I joined my colleagues from Santa Monica Baykeeper, Su … more →
The Definition of Insanity
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spoutingoff wrote 10 months ago: Cap Lady & Bag Monster (Santa Monica High School students) testified at the hearing making light … more →
Restoring the Bay
spoutingoff wrote 11 months ago: The Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission unanimously approved a new Bay Restoration Plan on Thu … more →
And You Thought S.M. Bay Was Bad
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spoutingoff wrote 11 months ago: Winter is upon us. Cold temperatures. Rain. Mudslides. The first snow of the year. Bad driving. … more →
Cynical About the 'Bu
spoutingoff wrote 1 year ago: On Thursday, the Regional Water Board unanimously approved a resolution requiring Board staff to neg … more →
Potomac Conservancy cites polluted runoff from urban areas as major threat to Potomac River
bruce mcgranahan wrote 1 year ago: Via Leesburg Today November 13 … The latest report from the Potomac Conservancy on the health … more →
Greetings from Egypt
spoutingoff wrote 1 year ago: Untreated effluent discharging from sugar cane factory into the Nile. I’m on a tourist ship fl … more →
