This is where I walk each day.  I have seen coyotes, ducks, rabbits and hawks.  There are so many different varieties of birds here; I just don’t know the names. It would be a tragedy to put a parking lot and soccer field here.  Please sign the petition to save Hahamongna.

Remember the Ambassador Hotel demolition and LA Unified’s school construction fiasco? This is just as stupid.  Who would construct anything here?



The County of Los Angeles has recently announced a plan to remove massive amounts of sediment and habitat from the Hahamongna basin, and they think they can do it without an Environmental Impact Report to involve local residents and stakeholders or to consider the most environmentally sensitive alternatives. Everyone else has to follow environmental law. Why not the County?

Pasadena, La Canada and Altadena will all be heavily impacted by the constant parade of 300-400 trucks per day for three years and all the noise, dust and air pollution they cause. And when the County is done, they will have scoured a permanent fifty acre barren scar in the middle of the basin. Gone will be the willows and riparian plants that now grace the area, as well as the birds and wildlife that now thrive there.

Our cities can and should do something about this. They need to take the lead in protecting our neighborhoods and our environment. That's why the Arroyo Seco Foundation has just launched a petition to urge our cities to insist on a full review of environmental alternatives and the selection of the plan that is the most sustainable and environmentally sensitive.

Here's something everyone who cares about the Arroyo can help with. This is a new petition that focuses on the need for an Environmental Impact Report. Sign the petition and urge your friends and neighbors to do so as well.

Learn more: Join the Saturday 9 am to noon walk about. 2/19/11 

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