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For centuries, the river sustained small communities of native peoples. Under Spanish rule, and with the exploitation of Tongva labor, the river made the new pueblo the most important agricultural settlement on the Pacific Coast. It then nurtured hundreds of vineyards and orange groves during the 1800s, which spread Los Angeles’s reputation as a wonderland around the globe. But as the city grew, it drained marshes, chopped down trees along the riverbanks to make way for railroad tracks and paved over land that had helped mitigate floods. The city’s growing population, with newcomers soon consuming water at three times the rate residents did in many Eastern cities, placed unprecedented demands on the river, which it was eventually unable to meet.

“We are seeing conditions unlike anything we have seen before,” Adel Hagekhalil, general manager for the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, told The Los Angeles Times. We met one sweltering September afternoon at the Willow Street Estuary in Long Beach, south of the Gateway Cities. This is where 20 miles of concrete ends and the flood channel regains its natural bottom before swelling into the ocean. A massive flood in 1914 turned Long Beach into an island and increased public pressure on authorities to subjugate the waterway, which only really became possible after the completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913. Sissy Trinh, executive director of the Southeast Asian Community Alliance, agrees.
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The self-guided exhibit describes the history of the Los Angeles River, its current status, and a vision for the River’s future. Located in the California Building, the exhibit hall is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. To 5 p.m., although it may be closed to the public for private events. River Park Homes specializes in selling new "Tiny Homes" & ADUs at Factory Direct Pricing from our office located in Kingsburg, CA. We are located 3 miles east of Hwy 99, at the southern end of Rd 28. After turning on Rd. 28, follow the signs to Kings River RV Resort.
An image popped to mind of a skyscraper rising on the site, overshadowing the bridge, bringing an army of gentrifiers to Boyle Heights. It spans the flood channel where the gentrified Arts District on the west side of the river faces Boyle Heights, a historically working-class neighborhood, on the east side. Replacing an Art Deco landmark, the new bridge became an overnight sensation on Instagram and attracted mobs of fans who camped out on it, making music and partying, blocking traffic. Its popularity resurfaced longstanding concerns about gentrification in Boyle Heights. The goal, Mabasa said, should not be building decks over the concrete channel but looking at removing it, installing permeable pavement and capturing more storm water. These are just a few of the activities available at the adjacent Rio de Los Angeles State Park.
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Among the projects the master plan endorses is a proposal by the architect Frank Gehry for that southern stretch of the river. Since 1938, Los Angeles hasn’t suffered a flood as disastrous as the one that year, thanks in no small part to the channel’s engineering, which has also allowed Angelenos to forget the danger the river originally posed. As the threat of flooding receded in people’s minds, objections to the channel — and its effects — have grown. Droughts have increasingly raised questions about the logic of a channel built to hasten billions of gallons of rainwater out of the region and into the ocean.

Today, with climate change bringing ever-more-extreme weather, the river is no longer the sole or even a minor source of potable water for the county. But it remains integral to a vast, complex water-management system that regulates the flow and use of water across the entire region and that tries to anticipate both floods and droughts. This spring, residents in Canoga Park were among six million Southern Californians subject to new restrictions on water use because of a major drought.
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Environmentalists, concerned about the despoliation of nature, have been lobbying for the concrete to be removed and the river rewilded, with new marshes and wetlands to green the city and mitigate flooding. And social activists have focused on how the channel worsens racial and income disparities, depriving underserved communities of healthy open spaces and concentrating poverty along the industrialized margins of the river. Located in downtown-close Cypress Park, the 17-acre master plan has been a hot topic of conversation focused on positive progress in the area. A unique, public-private joint venture with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, the transit-oriented development is at the center of the City’s L.A. River Restoration project, including a planned 51-mile greenway corridor along the riverbanks.
In this year’s tech & design issue, the magazine collaborated with The Times’s Headway team to present an issue about how people around the world approach rebuilding during a time of continuous disaster. Nor its role in protecting them from devastating flood waters. Deal's newsletters give you the latest scoops, fresh headlines, marketing data, and things to know within the industry. The project will include improvements to Baker Street Park and a traffic signal at its entrance on Wardlow Road. Integral Communities received a final go-ahead to develop 226 homes along a polluted stretch of the Los Angeles River in North Long Beach.
Whether you’re into bicycling, running, kayaking, River House offers its residents an array of activities at their doorstep. Located next to one of Los Angeles’ newest green spaces, Marsh Park, River House offers a community unlike any other. At the northern end of the River Center grounds, the River Garden Park serves as an entry point to the River Center by foot or bicycle, and adds much needed green space to the local community.
During the following days, the city received its second-highest 24-hour rainfall in history. Reservoirs overflowed, dams topped out and floodwaters careered down Pacoima Wash and Tujunga Wash toward the Los Angeles River. By the time the river peaked at Long Beach, its flow exceeded the Mississippi’s at St. Louis. “It was as if the Pacific had moved in to take back its ancient bed,” wrote Rupert Hughes in “City of Angels,” a 1941 novel that climaxes with the flood. In an instant, the Lankershim Bridge in North Hollywood collapsed, and five people were swept away. Sewer and gas lines ruptured; communications were cut; houses were lifted straight off their foundations and sank into the water.
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