STINK RAISED OVER SITE OF SPILLS.Byline: TROY ANDERSON Staff Writer The million-dollar question raised Tuesday at the Board of Supervisors' meeting was: Where did nearly 12 million gallons of raw sewage go? 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. County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky Zev Yaroslavsky (born December 21, 1948) is a Los Angeles County politician. He served on the Los Angeles City Council from 1975 until 1994, when he was elected to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. He was preceded in both offices by Edmund D. Edelman. disputed a recent auditor's report Auditor's Report Recorded in the annual report, the auditor's report tests to see that a corporation's financial statements comply with GAAP. This is sometimes referred to as the clean opinion. Notes: Most auditor's reports consist of three paragraphs. that claimed most of the sewage spills occurred in his district. Instead, he said most of the sewage ultimately ended up in Supervisor Don Knabe's Long Beach district. The report said 208 spills occurred within the Santa Monica Bay Santa Monica Bay is an arm of the Pacific Ocean in southern California, United States. Its boundaries are slightly ambiguous, but it is generally considered to be the part of the Pacific within an imaginary line drawn between Point Dume Watershed, but Yaroslavsky said a closer examination revealed that two-thirds of the spills of more than 100,000 gallons occurred outside the watershed. The watershed extends from the Palos Verdes Palos Verdes is often used to refer to a group of coastal cities on the Palos Verdes Peninsula in the Los Angeles/South Bay area of California. This affluent bedroom community is known for its dramatic views, good schools [1] extensive horse trails [2] Peninsula to Malibu, inland to the 405 Freeway and goes through the Santa Monica Mountains The Santa Monica Mountains are a low transverse range in southern California in the United States. Geography They run for approximately 40 mi (64 km) east-west from the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles to Point Mugu in Ventura County. . ``A total of 7.7 million out of 9.7 million gallons of sewage spills -- almost 80 percent of spills of 100,000 gallons or more evaluated from 2002 through 2006 -- were not in the Santa Monica Bay Watershed,'' Yaroslavsky said. ``They were in the Los Angeles and San Gabriel River San Gabriel River is the name of watercourses in two states:
The board directed Auditor-Controller Tyler McCauley to revise his report to more accurately reflect where sewage was spilled. But David Sommers, a spokesman for Knabe, said that misses the point. ``It doesn't matter if it happened in Lancaster or Long Beach -- we have a problem and we need to fix it,'' Sommers said. McCauley's audit, released last week, found that more than 90 percent of 208 spills were never properly recorded by health officials. Records also were not kept on whether steps were taken to protect public health. The supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to adopt a series of recommendations made by McCauley to address and reform the sewage-spill reporting process, including changes in state laws to permit fines against those who fail to report spills to the county's public health officer. troy.anderson(at)dailynews.com (213) 974-8985 |
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