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During California’s atmospheric river storms, Los Angeles’s stormwater-capture interventions like green alleys and spreading grounds prevented flooding, but new water funding should prioritize projects that add more nature and remove more pavement.
From Sun Valley To South Central, "Green Alleys" are helping to alleviate flooding in neighborhoods while making space for nature in a paved-over city.
BACKYARD of Brookside home shows bridges over stream in March 2018. Brookside’s stream, El Rio del Jardin de las Flores, has had some highs and lows over the last few years, both in the amount of water moving through the streambed, and in the ongoing research to preserve the stream. Last September, Brookside resident Nancy Levine reached out to the Larchmont Chronicle with an update, letting us know that while the stream seems to have a normal flow where it “daylights,” just south of Wilshire Boulevard, that the flow was weak between 8th and 9th Streets, and dry where it flows south of...