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| What do we do with the Silver Lake reservoirs? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Apr 23 2016, 04:04 AM (548 Views) | |
| Deleted User | Apr 23 2016, 04:04 AM Post #1 |
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The Silver Lake reservoir is empty. For months now, day after day, construction trucks drive up and down temporary ramps onto the floor of the lake. Neighbors are weary of construction on the surrounding streets, and of looking out at blank concrete walls surrounding a huge, dry pit. Walkers and runners peer through the rusty chain link fences and wonder what’s happening next. Designed by William Mulholland at the dawn of the 20th century, the Silver Lake and neighboring Ivanhoe reservoirs were built to store water in case our aqueduct system failed. In 2006, the federal Environmental Protection Agency issued new rules about water quality, which required that the reservoirs be covered. In response, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power decided to decommission Silver Lake and Ivanhoe and build a new water treatment and storage facility near Griffith Park. This required bypassing the existing reservoirs with new pipes installed in the floor of the lakes. Since announcing the closures, the reservoirs and surrounding neighborhoods have been one large construction zone — and yet there’s been no real public conversation about what to do with these voluminous and beautiful spaces once the bypass construction is complete. How quickly can we refill the basins given the ongoing drought conditions? Where will the water come from? Can we remove the fences and concrete and create a dynamic riparian habitat on the banks? http://www.latimes.com/opinion/livable-city/la-ol-silver-lake-reservoir-20160421-snap-htmlstory.html |
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| ringotuna | Jun 13 2017, 03:44 PM Post #2 |
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http://unitedstates.com/single/?p=10163661&t=10225696 To trigger mex.
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