BILL FUNDS LOCAL WATER PROJECTS.Byline: Lisa Friedman Washington Bureau WASHINGTON - More than $33 million for federally funded water projects is expected to wash up in the Southland under a spending bill President George W. Bush has signed into law. The $30.5 billion measure paying for Department of Energy and Army Corps of Engineers projects over the coming year includes $9 million to continue removing toxic contamination from Rocketdyne's Santa Susana Santa Susana can refer to several places:
For the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. , the bill includes $2 million to restore wildlife along the Bull Creek Bull Creek can refer to the following locations:
Beilenson was born in New Rochelle, New York and grew up in wealthy suburban New York City. Park. The money, secured by Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Sherman Oaks, brings total funding for the federally owned flood control area to about $3.9 million. The bill signed Sunday also contains $150,000 to improve water quality and mitigate flooding at the Sun Valley watershed, a 4.4-square-mile tributary to the Los Angeles River The Los Angeles River is an intermittent river flowing through Los Angeles County, California, from Canoga Park in the west end of the San Fernando Valley, 51 miles (82 km) southeast to its mouth in Long Beach. ; and $431,000 to restore the Tujunga Wash, which Rep. Howard Berman, D-Van Nuys, called ``an environmental jewel.'' Berman, who obtained the funds for both projects, said the Tujunga Wash restoration ``will both help improve and increase our groundwater supply and provide additional habitat area, passive recreation and aesthetic beauty to the region.'' In Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, Rep. Elton Gallegly, R-Thousand Oaks, secured $2.15 million for the Calleguas Municipal Water District Recycling Project to build a 34-mile brine line; $800,000 to continue studying the feasibility of removing Matilija Dam and restoring conditions for the endangered steelhead trout; and $500,000 to replace a water intake facility, a treatment plant and two sewer lift stations at Lake Cachuma. He also brought in $9 million for the latest installment of money to remove radioactive waste from the soil at Rocketdyne's Santa Susana Field Laboratory in the Simi Hills. Lisa Friedman, (202) 662-8731 lisa.friedman(at)langnews.com |
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