County Flood Seeks Dredge and Fill Permit for Hahamongna Sediment Program

Read the Official Notice

Los Angeles County Flood Control District has filed for an application to the US Army Corps of Engineers to remove 2.4 million cubic yards of sediment from Devil's Gate Basin in Hahamongna Watershed Park. This is to implement their Devil's Gate Sediment Trucking Program, the "Big Dig," which is being challenged in court by the Arroyo Seco Foundation and Pasadena Audubon Society because their California environmental impact report is woefully deficient in its analyis of impacts on aquatic habitat, endangered birds, mitigation and a host of other issues.

It would be wrong for the US Army Corps to allow County Flood to slide by without an adequate review of these factors and without choosing the least damaging alternative.

This is your chance to wade in again and to have a say, defending Hahamongna

We urge you:

1) Review the notice
2) Submit your comments by June 18 to Bonnie.L.Rogers@usace.army.mil
3) Send a copy of your comments to info@arroyoseco.org
4) Spread the Word - urge your friends and associates to submit comments

Please send any questtions or commens to info@arroyoseco.org

Please Submit Comments by June 18!

The Corps' primary responsibility is to fully protect aquatic and riparian habitat in Hahamongna. The scale of County Flood's program would devastate the habitat and wildlife there. A smaller, slower ongoing sediment management program is the best approach to flood protection and preserving critical Hahamongna environmental resources.

• Insist on a Public Hearing on the Application due to widspread public interest

• Urge the Corps to extend the public comment period to give the public additional time to review the documents, some of which are still not publically available

• Ask the Corps to release a full Environmental Impact Study

• Urge the Corps to deny the permit as the County failed to adopt the least damaging practical alternative as resquired.