California Friendly(TM) Native Plant Garden Debuts at First Annual Spring Festival at Shipley Nature Center.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". :
WHAT: First annual Spring Festival at Shipley Nature Center in
Huntington Beach. Event will include dedication of a
demonstration native plant garden supported by Metropolitan
Water District's City Makeover Program.
WHEN: 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, April 29; demonstration California
Friendly garden dedication ceremony begins at 10:30 a.m.
Tours of the center's habitat will commence at 12:30 p.m.
WHERE: Shipley Nature Center, 17829 Goldenwest St., Huntington Beach
(Orange County Thomas Bros. Guide Page 857, H-2)
PARTICIPANTS:
Huntington Beach Mayor David Sullivan; Metropolitan Board
Chairman Wes Bannister, who also represents the Municipal Water
District of Orange County on Metropolitan's Board of Directors;
and Ed Royce, Sr., director, MWDOC
BACKGROUND:
Named after former Mayor Donald D. Shipley, the Shipley Nature
Center is an 18-acre fenced natural area within Huntington
Beach Central Park. The Center includes 4,000 feet of trails
that meander through several habitats, including oak woodlands,
Torrey pines, meadows, and Blackbird Pond, a natural freshwater
wetland with mature willows and sycamores.
The new one-acre demonstration garden at the Center showcases
eight habitats: butterfly, hummingbird, coastal sage scrub,
wildflower meadow, oak woodland and riparian woodland. The
garden also features a bog/swale to capture rainwater for
wildlife and demonstrate water harvesting techniques, as well
as small freshwater pond.
The center's new garden is one of 21 projects in Southern
California funded by Metropolitan's City Makeover Program,
established to transform highly visible public spaces into
native and California Friendly(TM) plant landscapes. The
program is part of an ongoing public outreach effort to promote
outdoor water conservation and an appreciation of native
landscaping among Southern Californians.
The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California 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. |
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