September 25, 2002

Arroyo restoration presentation set

PASADENA

A vision for environmental restoration of the Arroyo Seco will be presented at a meeting of the Sierra Club-Pasadena Group at 7:30 p.m. on Oct. 2 at the Eaton Canyon Nature Center, 1750 N. Altadena Dr., Pasadena.

The public is welcome.

Eileen Takata, conservation planning coordinator for North East Trees, and Tim Brick, a director of the Arroyo Seco Foundation, will give an illustrated program, "Balancing Recreation and Habitat Restoration in Pasadena's Arroyo Seco.'

Their program will focus on implications for Pasadena of the Arroyo Seco Watershed Restoration Feasibility Study, a cooperative project of North East Trees and the Arroyo Seco Foundation. The study's purpose is to develop an environmentally sensitive and sustainable plan to manage and restore all of the 46-square-mile Arroyo Seco watershed, stretching from the San Gabriel Mountains to the stream's confluence with the Los Angeles River.

The watershed study was released in May as the city of Pasadena was releasing its Master Plan and Draft Environmental Impact Report for the six miles of the Arroyo Seco within Pasadena. The city's plan will be reviewed by city agencies and eventually go before the Pasadena City Council for decision.

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