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In Los Angeles, a hard rain’s gonna fall — and then get wasted

Posted by: Maven on January 21, 2010 at 6:20 am

From the Legal Planet blog:

“A friend from New York, recently transplanted to Los Angeles, has watched aghast as, again and again, weather reporters have greeted any local rainfall more than 1″ with feverish STORMWATCH headlines. That said, the Southland got hit with quite a storm these last 48 hours.

“Well,” say most Angelenos unaccustomed to precipitation. “At least we could use the rain.” Except that we can’t.

The vast majority of the city’s rainfall picks up all kinds of pollutants from the street, and then gets merrily flushed out to sea. Even the part of it that gets treated goes to the ocean.

And that is truly obscene. … “

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January 21, 2010 · Filed Under Flood Control/Stormwater

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