300 volunteers and cleanup of the murky San Gabriel Riverbed in an effort organized by the U.S. Army Corps’ of Engineers new team of four park rangers assigned to the nature sanctuary.
More than 100 volunteers fanned out across the San Gabriel Riverbed at Whittier Narrows nature sanctuary under gloomy gray skies on Saturday to pick it clean of trash buried in sand and snared in the limbs of willow trees and weeds.
Marking National Public Lands Day, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, partnering with Los Angeles County and local volunteers, made an effort to clean up and remove trash from the Whittier Narrows. “Before today, we rarely communicated with the Army Corps, which seemed to be just fine with them,” he said. “So, this is a brand-new day for all of us. I have my hopes that it will last.”
Among the volunteers was Tom Moritz, 64, an adjunct professor of environmental studies at the private University of the West in Rosemead. Hoisting a garbage bag bulging with trash, he echoed the sentiments of many participants: “It’s really important that the Army Corps gets onboard environmental restoration work on this gorgeous federal property that is home to loads of endangered species.
The sanctuary was founded in 1939 by the Audubon Society. The corps built the spillway and 56-foot-tall earthen dam in 1957 to control flooding and recharge a critically needed groundwater basin along the occasionally tempestuous San Gabriel and Rio Hondo rivers. Joshua Esparza, 27, carrying a trash bag, takes part in the cleanup of the Whittier Narrows Natural Area.
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