The City of Los Angeles recently broke ground on a project to divert roughly one million gallons per day of polluted urban runoff away from the ocean and into existing sanitary sewers. The $13-million Low Flow Diversion project will provide new water filtration infrastructure to remove waste flows from five sub-watersheds in the Los Angeles River and Arroyo Seco River.
The job, which began in July, is being led by design firm Stantec, in collaboration with the Los Angeles Department of Public Works Bureau of Engineering (BOE) and Los Angeles Sanitation & Environment (LASAN).