RIVER RALLY CLEANUP TAPPED FOR WATER AWARD.Byline: Eugene Tong Staff Writer 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, - The city's River Rally, the annual community Santa Clara River Santa Clara River may refer to:
The city's Environmental Services The various combinations of scientific, technical, and advisory activities (including modification processes, i.e., the influence of manmade and natural factors) required to acquire, produce, and supply information on the past, present, and future states of space, atmospheric, Division has received the 2004 Water Quality Award in the category of stewardship from the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Regional Water Quality Control Board, a state agency that monitors and protects ground and surface water in Los Angeles and surrounding counties. ``I feel ecstatic,'' said Travis Lange, the city's environmental services manager. ``It's not just an award for the city and city staff. It's also an award we can share with the community. ``Over the last 10 years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time event has gone from 100 volunteers coming out to clean up the river to over 1,300 this year.'' At the 10th annual River Rally last month, volunteers from schools and churches, civic organizations and families eagerly grabbed garbage bags and combed the channel's sandy bottom, where such trash as rusted shopping carts, tires, large sheets of rubber foam, steel and plastic pipes were found. Known as the last natural waterway in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, , the Santa Clara River runs for about 100 miles from the hills of Acton to the ocean north of Oxnard. For area environmentalists, it is a wildlife artery that sustains the region's entire ecosystem that's home to the endangered steelhead trout. The river watershed is the subject of a four-year, $8.2 million study funded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Los Angeles and Ventura counties. Eugene Tong, (661) 257-5253 eugene.tong(at)dailynews.com |
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