The Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board (Los Angeles Water Board) has issued a 60-day notice of intent to sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Army Corps) for two unauthorized dredge and fill operations in Los Angeles County that violated the federal Clean Water Act and the California Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act.
The Water Board is being represented in the matter by the California Attorney General's office.
Click HERE to read more
Click HERE to read
the entire Finding of No Significant Impact for
the Vegetation Management plan.
Click HERE to read the
letter sent to ACOE by the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Areas
Steering Committee.
Click HERE to read the
ACOE's response to the SBWASC letter.
Click HERE to see ACOE's web
page about this issue.
Click HERE to read Daily
News article about clear cutting of South Reserve. URL DEAD
Click HERE to read L.A.
Times article "Army Corps of Engineers clear-cuts lush habitat
in Valley", URLS
NOT AT TIMES ARCHIVE
Click HERE to view YouTube
video about the destruction.
Click HERE and HERE to see Encino
Patch articles with additional photos.
Click HERE to read letter from San Fernando
Valley Audubon Society about clear cut.
Click HERE to
read KCET blog by Carren Jao. URL DEAD
Click HERE to read letter
from State Senator Fran Pavley.
Click HERE to read letter
from State Senator Luis de Leon.
Click HERE to view video
entitled "Wildlife Refuge Meets Army Corps of Engineers" by a
concerned citizen.
Click HERE to
read an editorial by Charles Miller on the KCET blog. URL SHUT DOWN
Click HERE to read story in
the LA Weekly.
Click HERE to read
Congressman Brad Sherman's letter to Colonel Toy. URL BANISHED
Regional Water Board Investigation - click HERE for Encino Patch
article.
Click HERE to
read NRDC blog by David Pettit URL
TAKEN DOWN
Click HERE for Jan 13 update
on the Sepulveda Wildlife Reserve.
Click HERE for Feb. 12
update by Army Corps of Engineers
Los
Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board
Click HERE to read
Investigative Order by Regional Water Board
Click HERE to read Water
Board Additional Request (with images)
Click HERE for link to Army
Corp Response (Cover
Letter and Engineering
Technical Report)
San
Fernando Valley Audubon Society's COMMENTS in
regards to the USACE Technical Report,
which was their response to the LARWQCB Investigative
Order R4-2013-0001
Click HERE to
read the Ad Hoc River Committee Report to the LA City Feb. 25,
2013
ARMY WROTE THESE
SMART PEOPLE "IT WAS A PARK FULL OF HOMELESS. WE TOOK IT DOWN."
TOTAL LIE. SEE BEAUTIFUL
WILD LIFE REFUGE.