To add insult to injury, such fragile ecosystems encircling today’s Pasadena, Altadena, La Canada Flintridge and central Los Angeles are threatened by a county sediment-removal project that is outdated, unbalanced and a violation of environmental laws.Īt least, that’s the view presented by Tim Brick, executive director of the Arroyo Seco Foundation, during a forum sponsored by Altadena Heritage attended by 115 people at the Altadena Community Center on Thursday night.īrick, along with Dave Douglass, a geology professor at Pasadena City College, and Josephine Axt, chief of the planning division of the U.S. and nearby, natural playlands has been severed by 100 years of county dam projects, concrete channelization of waterways and arsonist-fed wildfires. However, the connection between downtown L.A. The great pioneers of Pasadena described the Hahamongna watershed and the Arroyo Seco as a place where trout swam in crisp waters, webs of flowery vines and oaks blotted out the sky and hunters scored bears and foxes for display in their Los Angeles homes. By Steve Scauzillo, San Gabriel Valley Tribune
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