Clearwater Program by Anne Ingalls [email protected] the Los Angeles County Site Will Be Located in Carson
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Summer 2008 Palisades Residents Association of San Pedro Vol. 20, No. 2 PO Box 5281 San Pedro, CA 90733 Clearwater Program By Anne Ingalls www.sanpedropalisades.org [email protected] The Los Angeles County site will be located in Carson. Sanitation District’s Clearwater Clearwater has identified Program is designed to study 13 potential shaft locations the needs of the County for for the second construction reclaiming, reusing and dumping site as meeting their minimum wastewater. Part of this program screening criteria: the US Navy is to evaluate two tunnels which Fuel Depot, Eastview Park, Field run from the Carson treatment of Dreams, Peck Park, the Port plant, under the Palos Verdes of Los Angeles, Averill Park, Peninsula, to the ocean shelf. Friendship Park, Fort McArthur, The two tunnels, one built in White Point Nature Preserve, 1937 and the other in 1958, have Royal Palms State Beach, not been inspected in almost 50 Angels Gate Park, Cabrillo years. Both tunnels are in use Beach, and Point Fermin Park. every day and cannot be taken out of service for inspection. Whatever site is selected, The program is studying the Clearwater predicts the viability of building a new tunnel following: eight years of and ocean outfall to divert flow construction, 50—100 trucks per from the old tunnels, take them day going to and from the site to out of service for inspection and remove excavated dirt and rocks, then, if necessary, repair them. and high sound walls to shield surrounding areas from noise. Clearwater proposes that the logical areas for the outfall would This new tunnel does not be the Palos Verdes Shelf or the service San Pedro’s wastewater San Pedro Shelf. The tunnel needs; it is to service other cities’ would be deep underground. wastewater which is treated in The identified potential tunnel Carson. This program is still alignments follow major streets: in the “public participation” Stephen M. White Drive, process. It is important to Gibson Boulevard, Western express your opinions regarding What’s Inside: Avenue, Gaffey Street, Pacific this matter to Clearwater Clearwater Program . 1 Avenue, Harbor Boulevard, and to Councilwoman Janice Letter from the President . .3 Figueroa Street, Frigate Avenue, Hahn. Attendees at the annual Getting to Know Peggy ...........4 and Wilmington Boulevard. PRA meeting in May clearly Treasurer’s Report . 4 Due to the tunneling distances expressed their preference Palisades Crime Beat..............5 to reach the outfall or shelf, to Clearwater and Hahn for Memberships . 6 two construction shafts will be locating the tunneling in the Port of Los Angeles. For more Neighborhood Watch.............7 needed to lower equipment into information on Clearwater, go to Calendar of Events................8 the tunnel and remove excavated soil. One construction shaft www. clearwaterprogram. org. Page 2 Palisades Residents Association of San Pedro Summer 2008 Palisades Residents Association of San Pedro Representing the residents of the area of San Pedro bounded by Western Avenue, 25th Street, Gaffey Street and the Pacific Ocean, plus the Pacific Crest section of the U.S. Air Force housing. Pacific Crest N 25th Street Pacific Heights Western Ave Street Gaffey Paseo del Mar White Point Nature Preserve Royal Palms WPES Fort MacArthur Fromhold Upper Reservation Field Lookout Angels Gate Point Wilder Addition Park Board of Directors Stephen Yates, president Dave Behar, vice president Anne Ingalls, secretary Hugh McKinney, treasurer Newsletter Contributors Lighthouse Anna Gladich Editors: Diane DeFidelibus P.R.A Board of Directors Meetings Mona Dallas Reddick, Copy Editor Glenn Russ The board meets at 7:00 p.m. on the second Tuesday of each month Jeniffer McMullen Writers: (excluding August and December) at Anne Ingalls Marissa Melling the Angels Gate Cultural Center, 3601 Stephen Yates S. Gaffey St., in the board room of Mona Dallas Reddick Yvonne Schueller Building A. The general membership Pam Meisel Florence Yates, Guest Author meeting is held in May at White Point Sean Conlon Layout & Design: Elementary School. Residents are Yvonne Schueller Jeniffer McMullen, ACME Photographics invited to attend any and all meetings. We’d Like to Hear From You Would you like to voice an opinion regarding a Palisades area issue? Letters to the Editor (150 words or less) and Guest Article (750 words or less) submissions must be of general interest and not be considered potentially libelous. For your submission to be considered, a street address and phone number where we may contact you are required. Anonymous submissions, addresses and phone numbers will not be published. We reserve the right to edit, condense or refuse submissions. Submissions may be sent as a Word document or in the body of the email. Deadlines are 3/3, 7/3 and 11/3. Summer 2008 Palisades Residents Association of San Pedro Page 3 Letter from the President By Stephen Yates Do you remember what it was ocean full of water, the only place Well, friends and neighbors, the like the last day of school before the Port can find to park their new homework is piling up and it’s time Christmas break when you were cruise ship is in the middle of our to get to work. Fortunately, unlike so excited about two weeks of swimming hole. Works for them, in school, we don’t have to work vacation, that is, until each one I guess. Our bond money seems alone! As members of the Palisades of your teachers loaded you to be burning a hole in LAUSD’s Residents Association we can work with enough homework to ruin pocket. They’re dying to build a together to decide what we want any kid’s vacation? I remember new school in the Palisades, which and don’t want in our community. thinking that if they would just will have a serious negative impact We are beginning our talk to each other, there is no way on our neighborhood, while at membership drive soon, and they would want to do that to me. the same time they’re laying off you will be seeing some of your Now, a few decades later, I’m teachers. Does that seem wrong neighbors knocking on your wondering the same thing again, to anyone besides me? And what door asking you to join us. Our except this time it’s developers about Ponte Vista? Getting in and membership has more than tripled instead of teachers. Just as I was out of San Pedro is a nightmare since last year, and our voice is settling in to enjoy the calm of now; I’m sure adding a couple of getting stronger. So come, voice my life in San Pedro, one day thousand homes will not help the your opinion, let us know where you I looked up to find about half problem. Oh, and of course there stand on these and other matters, a dozen projects looming on is the Clearwater project which and get involved in shaping your the horizon, any one of which proposes to drill a massive tunnel community. The PRA Board meets could quickly and drastically 200 feet under our homes to carry on the second Tuesday of every change the quality of my life. sewage from other cities into month, 7:00 p.m., at Angels Gate Let’s start with the Port. With an the ocean, right off San Pedro. Cultural Center, Building A. “The neighborhood secret that the locals are talking about” Our New Menu includes: • Breakfast items & fresh-baked pastries Saturday, Sept 6th • Great sandwiches Wine, Soda & Hummus • Vienna Beef hot dogs Tasting Event • Old-fashioned hand-scooped malts and milkshakes to benefit • The largest bottled-soda selection in the South Bay! Pet Harbor Dog Rescue. Come to the store to sign up! Visit our Gift Shop & Gallery featuring art by local artists selling at super afflordable prices. Summer Hours: Mon–Fri 6 ish–7 pm, Sat & Sun 7–7pm 1118 W. 37th Street, San Pedro Phone (310) 832-2424 Page 4 Palisades Residents Association of San Pedro Summer 2008 Getting to Know Peggy by Florence Yates, Harbor Animal Shelter Volunteer Peggy is seven years the selection changes all the time. old. She has bright Some of the animals are brought in as eyes and shiny black strays, abandoned or lost, others are hair. If you walk by her surrendered by their owners, as was house, she’ll come to Peggy; her owners were moving. Some the front door and talk of the animals are rescued from abusive to you. She’s been in situations. Too frequently the shelter this new house at the sees numerous newborn puppies and Harbor Animal Shelter kittens arrive, some of them without since June 2; before their mothers. The shelter’s Baby that she lived down Bottle Program places them in foster Palos Verdes Realty Over the Back Fence: Over View One Neighbor’s the street in a smaller, care where they will be nurtured to more crowded and not an age at which they can be adopted. Elaine Clark so pretty shelter for several months. Realtor ® DRE# 00400681 The shelter also houses Direct 310.831.4444 Peggy’s new house has an indoor- reptiles, rabbits, and chickens and Fax: 310.831.1836 outdoor living area and retractable is equipped to house birds in the [email protected] awnings and beautiful landscaping. enormous, beautiful aviary. Foghorn, The floor of her inner room can be a handsome rooster, was adopted by heated in the winter, but right now the shelter as its own pet because it’s summer and Peggy gets really hot he sings his beautiful song a bit too on some days. She has heard that the loudly to live in a residential area.