FLOOD PREVENTION IN WORKS LOCAL, STATE, FEDERAL FUNDS POOLED TO CLEAN UP CLOGGED NEWHALL CREEK.Byline: Eugene Tong Staff Writer NEWHALL - The city has gathered some $580,000 in local, state and federal funds Federal Funds Funds deposited to regional Federal Reserve Banks by commercial banks, including funds in excess of reserve requirements. Notes: These non-interest bearing deposits are lent out at the Fed funds rate to other banks unable to meet overnight reserve to clean up Newhall Creek and clear silt under the Sand Canyon Bridge - work needed to prevent flooding following last month's storms. The funds, slated for approval by the Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, City Council on Tuesday, would help relieve fears of more flooding at Polynesian Mobile Home Park, which lost 29 homes to water and mudflows when Newhall Creek jumped its banks during the deluge. ``It should address the immediate threat of the flooding they have seen, by removing the silt (in the upper creek),'' city engineer Robert Newman Robert Newman can refer to:
When the four-day storm left 13 inches of rain, the normally dry creek bed filled rapidly, while charred debris from a fire last summer that scorched scorch v. scorched, scorch·ing, scorch·es v.tr. 1. To burn superficially so as to discolor or damage the texture of. See Synonyms at burn1. 2. hillsides upstream in Placerita Canyon clogged the stream at a pair of culverts just outside the mobile-home park on San Fernando Road San Fernando Road is a major street in the city and county of Los Angeles. It starts off in Castaic as The Old Road, passing through Santa Clarita and the Newhall Pass, where upon its intersection with Sierra Highway near the junction of the Golden State (I-5) and the . ``We're pleased with the city's action,'' said Hunt C. Braly, an attorney representing the mobile-home park's residents. City crews began clearing the creek last week after the City Council awarded an emergency no-bid contract to Jimmie D. Foster Grading to clear the lower creek late last month. With council approval Tuesday, crews can begin work on the upper creek and at the Sand Canyon Bridge at Lost Canyon Road, where silt buildup has left it at risk of being washed out. Work is expected to last about two weeks. The first phase of Newhall Creek excavation will cost about $360,000, with $270,000 from the state Office of Emergency Services emergency services Emergency care '…services …necessary to prevent death or serious impairment of health and, because of the danger to life or health, require the use of the most accessible hospital available and equipped to furnish those services' and $90,000 from the city. Phase Two is projected to cost $180,000, with $135,000 from the federal National Resources Conservation Service, $30,600 from the property owner, Polynesian Mobile Home Park LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , and $14,400 from the city. The city of Santa Clarita also is covering the $40,000 cost for silt removal under the Sand Canyon Bridge. Eugene Tong, (661) 257-5253 eugene.tong(at)dailynews.com |
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