ADVISORY/Metropolitan Water District's Landscape Makeover Program Benefits Altadena Foothills Restoration; Assemblywoman Carol Liu Helps Present $15,000 Check.Photo Editors/News Editors/Environment Writers/Education Writers ADVISORY...for Monday Monday: see week. (Dec. 15) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
WHAT: Metropolitan Water District's City Makeover Program presents
$15,000 to Altadena Foothills Conservancy for program that
will involve local youth in habitat restoration in Millard
Canyon
WHEN: 2:30 p.m. Monday Dec. 15
WHERE: Millard Canyon Campground parking lot. Fair Oaks Avenue
north to Loma Alta Drive; left to Chaney Trail; right up to
parking lot. Los Angeles County Thomas page 535,1 1/2 H.
WHO: State Assemblywoman Carol Liu; Altadena Foothills Conservancy
President Nancy Steele and officers; Foothill Municipal Water
District Directors James T. Edwards, Robert Gomperz, Arthur
Littlejohns, Robert Sloan and Thomas Underbrink; Metropolitan
Water District City Makeover and Community Partnering program
officials
WHAT: Metropolitan's City Makeover Program to promote native and
California Friendly plants, as well as Metropolitan's
Community Partnering Program, award $15,000 to Altadena
Foothills Conservancy for program that will involve local
youth in restoring one mile of Millard Canyon Creek and
possibly other streams in the Arroyo Seco watershed.
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is the largest bulk water supplier for municipal use in the world. The name is usually shortened to the "Metropolitan Water District" or simply "MWD". is a cooperative cooperative Organization owned by and operated for the benefit of those using its services. Cooperatives have been successful in such fields as the processing and marketing of farm products and the purchasing of other kinds of equipment and raw materials, and in the of 26 cities and water agencies serving 18 million people in six counties. The district imports water from the Colorado River Colorado River River, south-central Argentina. Its major headstreams, the Grande and Barrancas rivers, flow southward from the Andes Mountains and meet to form the Colorado near the Chilean border. It flows southeastward across northern Patagonia and the southern Pampas. and Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern to supplement local supplies, and helps its members to develop increased water conservation, recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. , storage and other water-management programs. For more information, visit www.mwdh2o.com. |
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