It’s a tall order: Try to get 10M L.A. County residents ready for climate change, extreme heat, flooding and wildfires.
Prolonged heat spells. Ferocious wildfires. Extended droughts. Atmospheric rivers that erode hillsides, damage roadways and flood homes. Coastal erosion from storms and rising tides.
A new hole sits in the courtyard of the Coyote Village condo complex in La Habra, CA, on Monday, March 20, 2023. The hole, created when a storm drain collapsed on Wednesday, joins another hole that formed during a collapse in 2019. FILE – Southern California Edison utility will pay $2.2 billion to settle insurance claims for the Woolsey fire that tore through Malibu in 2018, destroying nearly 100,00 acres and more than 1,600 homes. Three people died in the Woolsey fire and nearly 300,000 were forced to evacuate. Seen in this file photo are the remains of a home in the 39000 block of Lobo Canyon in Agoura Hills. On June 9, 2022, Southern California fire chiefs declared the early start of the 2022 fire season.
“I’d like to see more engineered projects, and also using new technologies such as cool pavement. But also employing natural solutions by addressing inequities in tree canopies,” she said. “It is now time to act with specific plans to keep communities safe and resilient.” Mark Pestrella, director of Public Works, said his crews have been clearing out storm basins and reservoirs in L.A. County so they can handle more rain and storm runoff. The county is near completion of the Sun Valley Upper Storm Drain Project that will increase storm water capture using more detention ponds, engineered wetlands and groundwater recharge.He also wants to prepare a system that can inform county residents of their flood risk.
he and his neighbors in the Padua area of northeast Claremont have found water leaking from retaining walls. Later it impacted a wide areas of propertiesOn Wednesday, he still had four inches of water in his backyard, he said. Using electric pumps, over the past 10 days he’s pumped five years worth of water usage from his property and into the street.
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