Opinion: A stormwater project makes too much sense
The Verdugo Wash is a flood-control channel that starts rain water on a 35-mile journey from the foothills above L.A. to the Pacific Ocean. When you visit the wash, you can see the massive chasm between rhetoric and reality in California water. Since 2017, the Crescenta Valley Water District has pursued the sort of project that California water officials say they want. Crescenta Valley, which serves 35,000 people in mostly unincorporated neighborhoods between Glendale and La Cañada-Flintridge, wants to capture ocean-bound rainwater from the Verdugo Wash and use it to recharge local groundwater supplies. Verdugo Wash doesn’t carry much water, but capturing some of it would provide one-sixth of the small district’s water supply for the small district.
—Written by Joe Mathews, Connecting California columnist for Zócalo Public Square.Related stormwater article:
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