Location: Los Angeles County
Project Type: Restoration, Restoration Planning
Status: Current
Habitat Type: Riparian
Cost: $5,161,750
Funding Gap: $5,000,000
Project Footprint: 450 acres
Project Footprint: 8 stream miles
Assembly District: 46
Senate District: 27
Congressional District: 30
Project Lead/Grantee:
The River Project (Melanie Winter, winter@theriverproject.org)
For more information, visit scwrp.org
The project will develop a 30% design plan set and supporting scientific and engineering studies to transform the Los Angeles River and tributary corridors within the Sepulveda Basin’s constrained streams, narrow riparian corridors (existing: ~60 acres) and disconnected uplands into roughly 8 miles and 600 acres (450 new acres) of restored meandering stream corridors, wide floodplains and thriving riparian corridors. Project goals include: expanded flood storage capacity, improved flood attenuation, increased groundwater recharge potential, increased regenerative wetland and riparian habitat areas, improved water quality, and expanded accessibility to stream ecosystems for the community, all through restoration of geomorphically functional channels and floodplains.
