Arroyo Currents
Arroyo Currents
As the result of the lawsuit filed by the Arroyo Seco Foundation and Pasadena Audubon Society, Honorable James C. Chalfant has shut down the County Flood Control's Big Dig Project for Devil's Gate Dam in Hahamongna Watershed Park. At a series of recent hearings, he ruled that the environmental impact report for the Devil's Gate Sediment Removal Project is critically flawed regarding air quality, mitigation and cumulative impacts measures. He has ordered the Flood Control District to redraft key sections of their flawed environmental impact report and then circulate the revised EIR to the public for a forty-five review period. The County Board of Supervisors then will hold a public hearing and must act to certify that the entire EIR is in compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). This process will give the public plenty of opportunities to ensure that the sediment removal program is reshaped along more sustainable and environmentally-sensitive lines.
Judge Chaltant also admonished the Flood Control District to take no further actions to further the project until they come back to him and demonstrate that they are in full environmental compliance.
Hahamongna Native Plant Nursery will be holding a clearance sale each Saturday and Sunday during June. Plants will be priced to move them out of the nursery and into your yard. Discounts as high as 40%. Don't miss this opportunity to beautify your yard with Southern California's best native plants at spectacular savings!
For information call the nursery at (626) 657-0392.
The San Gabriel Mountains National Monument is under review by the Trump Administration. The San Gabriel Mountains Community Collaborative (pictured above) has just sent an enthusiastic letter of support for the monument, documenting many of the accomplishments for the monument and the Angeles National Forest. (Credit: John Monsen)
The native trout and other aquatic species have been having a hard time in the Arroyo due to California's long drought. But ASF's Native Fish Restoration program is working to improve conditions for the fish in the upper Arroyo Seco watershed. Forty-four stellar vounteers from FedEx recent participated in a stream assessment to identify current conditions and fish barriers in the eleven mile mountain canyon during May.
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