LA RIVER PUBLIC INFORMATION
MEETING - REACH 1 PHASE 1
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Priyanka Wadhawan
USACE, Los Angeles District,
Project Manager
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US Army Corps
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LA RIVER ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION (LARER) *x*
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• LA River flows 51 miles through the
nation's second most urban and
populated region
SAN FERNANDO
• Serves as the backbone of an 870- VALLEY
CAMARILLO
mile coastal watershed
PASADENA
RANCHO
CUCAMONGA
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• 2015 Chief's Report signed by
LOS ANGELES
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Congress, authorizing plan
INGLEWOOD •HEIGHTS
RIVERSIDE
BEANSE tE.
PACIFIC OCEAN
• Received "New Start" Construction
CORONA
appropriations in 2022 LONG ANAHEIM
"BEACH
- LOS ANGELES RIVER
LOS ANGELES RIVER WATERSHED
• Currently, in Design and Construction Garcetti lobbies U.S. for more expensive L.A. River project- Los.
3 MILES PORT OF HUNTINGTON
phase LONG BEACH BEACH
LARER - PUBLIC INVOLVEMENT
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• A public review of the Draft IFR ran from September to November 2013 • nearly 500 comments were submitted from agencies, organizations, and individuals- including 6 state agencies, 13 local agencies, 17 key stakeholder organizations, and 8 neighborhood councils • 7 public workshops (River Update Meetings) were held
• Draft IFR public meeting was held with over 300 attendees who expressed close to unanimous support for Alternative 20
• the USACE received petitions with over 8,000 signatures in support of the Alternative • 84% of the public comments received supported a large-scale restoration project
LARER PROJECT GOALS
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Restore ecosystems containing
riparian and freshwater marsh
habitat.
Increase habitat connectivity.
Increase passive recreation
compatible with restored
environment.
LARER GOAL 1 - ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION
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Mediterranean Climates Biodiversity Hotspots
California Mediterranean
& Northern Basin
Baja California
Central Chile Wester Cape - Southwest &
South Africa South Australia
BIODIVERSITY
HABITAT SCARCITY The California Floristic
The Project area is within a globally scarce Province is one of the Mediterranean ecosystem, which covers only 2% of top 25 global hotspots the Earth's land surface but accounts for 20% of all of rapid biodiversity known plant species. loss. Califomnia
Least Tern
STATUS & TRENDS SPECIAL STATUS SPECIES
Over 90% of Southern California's riparian Approximately 140 federally protected bird habitat has been lost along with 95% species are supported by the LA River. of California's wetlands and 40% of its
reptiles and amphibians. California Red-Legged Frog
LARER GOAL 1 - ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION
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LARER GOAL 3 - PASSIVE RECREATION
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LA RIVER BRIDGE PROJECTS
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8 LARER REACH 1 PHASE A
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• Approximately 1.5 miles
long and 20 acres.
• It restores riparian habitat
and plans for compatible
recreation activities.
• Will connect the Pollywog
Park area of Griffith Park
and the City of Burbank.
LARER REACH 1 PHASE A
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Scope of the project will include:
> Habitat restoration through planting of
riparan community
> Irrigation for establishment of new
plantings and a drought management
plan
• Fine-grading, swales, and other
localized water harvesting/infiltrating Current Conditions features to support new riparian
community
> Habitat and wildlife connectivity
Future Conditions -Project Rendering
10 LARER - NEXT STEPS
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Right of Entry (ROE) from RAP - November 2022
Geotech Explorations -December 2022
Preliminary Design and Outreach to 30% Design - January - April 2023 Award Design Build Contract — September 2023
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13 DESCRIPTIONS OF THE EIGHT REACHES WITHIN THE 11-MILE PROJECT AREA
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Pollywog Park / Headworks to
Midpoint of Bette Davis Park Los Feliz Bivd. to SR-2
REACH Midpoint of Bette Davis Park to SR-2 to I-5
Upstream End of Ferraro Fields
Reach 1 is approximately 1.5 miles in length and Reach 5 is approximately 1.55 miles long and connects the Pollywog Park area of Griffith Park, the extends from Los Feliz Boulevard Bridge, under the USACE Headworks Ecosystem Restoration Study site, Sunnynook Drive Footbridge and the Hyperion and the City of Burbank at Disney Studios. The River Avenue Bridge, downstream to the Fletcher Drive in this reach is concrete-lined. Bridge, and ends at the SR-2 (Glendale Freeway) Reach 6 is approximately 2.34 miles long and Reach 2 is approximately 0.75 mile in length and
extends from the midpoint of Bette Davis Park Bridge as the River approaches Taylor Yard. The extends from the SR-2 Bridge to the downstream area of Griffith Park, where the riverbed transitions channel bed is concrete under each of the large crossing of Interstate 5 (I-5), where the riverbed REACH from concrete-lined to a soft bottom bed, and then bridges and cobblestone between the bridges. transitions from cobblestone to concrete-lined.
Ferraro Fields to Brazil Street This reach currently supports vegetation in the soft transitions back to concrete around the upstream This reach currently supports vegetation in the soft edge of Ferraro Fields. This reach currently supports bottom channel. bottom channel. vegetation in the soft bottom channel.
REACH 7 I-5 to Main Street REACH Main Street to First Street Brazil Street to Los Feliz Blvd.
Reach 3 is approximately 1 mile in length and begins
at the upstream edge of the Ferraro Fields where the
riverbed transitions from soft bottom to concrete-
lined and makes an approximately 90-degree curve
to the south around Griffith Park and transitions Reach 7 is approximately 1 mile long and begins at Reach 8 is approximately 1 mile long and begins at back to soft-bottom around Brazil Street. State the I-5 Bridge and extends to the Main Street Bridge. Main Street Bridge extending downstream to First Route (SR)-134 (Ventura Freeway) crosses the River This reach has a concrete-lined channel. The Arroyo Reach 4 is approximately 1.75 miles long and Street Bridge. The channel is concrete-lined in this at the Verdugo Wash confluence in this area. extends from Brazil Street to the Los Feliz Boulevard Seco confluence is located in this reach, and three reach. Rail lines run adjacent to the channel on both Bridge. The riverbed transitions from concrete-lined bridges cross the River in this reach, including a banks, and two rallroad bridges cross the River. to cobblestone and, where the reach ends at Los rallroad bridge, the North Broadway Bridge, and the This reach includes the Union Pacific LA Trailer and Fellz Boulevard, localized concrete lining of the bed Spring Street Bridge. Rail lines run adjacent to the Container Intermodal Facility (LATC also known as Is present. This reach currently supports vegetation channel on both banks. Piggyback Yard). US Highway101 crosses the River in the soft bottom channel. between César E. Chavez Avenue and First Street.