Real American Stories Project Keeps Oil and Tar Out
WWW.BEVERLYPRESS.COM INSIDE • AIDS groups rewarded. pg. 3 Partly cloudy, • Thanksgiving with rain likely Dining. Friday pg. 12 & 13 Volume 21 No. 46 Serving the West Hollywood, Hancock Park and Wilshire Communities November 17, 2011 Project Keeps Oil and Tar Hey! Teacher! Teach Those Kids Some Songs n RockSTAR Out of Storm Drains Afterschool Program Enriches Socially, n New System Will Filter Rain Runoff Academically BY EDWIN FOLVEN before it reaches the storm drains, but the new system will be a per- BY AARON BLEVINS he lake at the George C. Page manent solution, according to Museum, a major attraction Kerjon Lee, public affairs manager n a bit of irony, students partic- Tat the La Brea Tar Pits, is at for the county’s Department of ipating in the RockSTAR pro- risk of leaking oil and tar into the Public Works. Igram at Melrose Elementary storm drains. The Los Angeles “There is an underground School spent their Tuesday after- County Board of Supervisors pipeline that starts on the west side noon learning Pink Floyd’s school approved a $2 million project of the lake and proceeds across the protest song, “Another Brick in Tuesday to build a new filtration lake to a connecting sewer line on the Wall”, from, of all things, a system on site. Wilshire, and when there is a storm, teacher. For the past few years, a tempo- the overflow of storm water over- As part of the RockSTAR after- rary system has been in place to fil- saturates the system, and some of school program, which is offered in more than 50 elementary ter the oil and tar out of the water See Stormwater page 20 schools in Los Angeles, the stu- photo by Aaron Blevins dents were gearing up for some Students from Melrose Elementary are rockinʼ out during practices for upcoming performances.
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