JOSEPHINE AXT EXPLAINS WHERE WE ARE IN THE CORPS PLANNING PROCESS

“Our Study is Ecosystem Restoration”

Josephine Axt: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ ARBOR [Alternatives with Restoration Benefits and Opportunities for Revitalization] Study, which covers the nine mile stretch from just upstream from the Verdugo Wash at the border with Glendale to 1st Street in downtown L.A., is looking at ecosystem restoration. This is our primary mission area.

Right now Tetra-Tech is writing up our planning charette, held in late winter 2010, and putting together a working list of all the alternatives and different ideas we considered. We will be looking at regional economic development and other social effects. We’ll have some preliminary alternatives that will be refined, some conceptual designs that we’ll analyze for the costs and benefits, then we will come up with a final array of alternatives – five or so – and bring in the Corps’ Division and Headquarters to get their take on our analysis, and then determine which plan we propose. (more…)