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Editorial. Carlos Aguilar writes about Tongva natives' "Creation Myths and all of this rain." He warns that Santa Anita Dam above Sierra Madre runs the risk of overflowing as do several other 14 dams built in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 2, 2023
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p. H2
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 2, 2023
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p. H2
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Aguilar, Carlos
Rain
Santa Anita Dam
Weather
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Construction on Santa Anita Dam

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 17, 1969
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p. 1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 17, 1969
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p. 1
Subjects
Dams
Item ID
3889AN
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More than 11 acres of pristine native oak woodland at the Arcadia/Monrovia border, adjacent to Wilderness Park, are scheduled to be cut down to create a dumping ground for sediment dredge from the Santa Anita Dam, in a Los Angeles County Public Works project. The dam gets cleared out every 20 years or so. About 500,000 cubic yards of dirt and debris clogging the dam will be removed. Glen Owens, a founder of the Big Santa Anita Historical Society and a Monrovia planning commissioner, said the dirt shouldn't be dumped in one of only two native woodlands left in the San Gabriel Valley. Arcadia Councilman Bob Harbicht wants to hold a meeting with the city and county public works officials to clarify plans for the dirt dispersal.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32235
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 22, 2010
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p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 22, 2010
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p. A1, A4
Subjects
Environment
Los Angeles County Public Works
Oak trees
Owens, Glen
Santa Anita Dam
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32434AN
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Los Angeles County Public Works is scheduled to clear 11.3 acres of pristine native oak woodland to dump tons of sediment dredged from Santa Anita Dam. Glen Owens, a founder of the Big Santa Anita Historical Society and a Monrovia planning commissioner, hopes it's not too late for a grass roots effort to oppose or at least postpone the project. The sediment dump would be entirely in Arcadia.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32247
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 29, 2010
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p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 29, 2010
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p. A1, A4
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Environment
Los Angeles County Public Works
Oak trees
Owens, Glen
Santa Anita Dam
Item ID
32446AN
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Los Angeles County agrees to a minimum 30-day moratorium on its plan to cut down 11.1 acres of oak and sycamore woodland for a dumping site for debris dredged from the Santa Anita Dam. The site is below Arcadia's Wilderness Park. During this time, opponents to the project will be looking at alternatives and the county will communicate the project's impact to the environmental community.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32254
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 9, 2010
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p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
December 9, 2010
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p. A1, A4
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Environment
Los Angeles County Public Works
Oak trees
Santa Anita Dam
Item ID
32453AN
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Santa Anita Dam sediment project is nearly complete but residents and activists continue to question Los Angeles County's intentions for demolishing the 11-acre Arcadia Woodlands 1.5 years ago. Following the removal of the trees on January 12, 2011, the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works has been moving mud and debris from the dam to the middle and lower sediment placement sites by a massive conveyor belt. Moving the dirt makes flood control and water conservation possible for the neighboring populations of Arcadia and Sierra Madre.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33170
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 27, 2012
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p. 1, 4
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 27, 2012
Pages
p. 1, 4
Subjects
Environment
Los Angeles County Public Works
Oak trees
Santa Anita Dam Sediment Placement Site
Item ID
33367AN
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A profile of the Santa Fe Dam Radio Control Modelers Club that meets at the Red Cross in Arcadia each month.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper26948
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 29, 1999
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 29, 1999
Pages
p. 1
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Organizations - Santa Fe Dam Radio Control Modelers Club
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27147AN
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Los Angeles County keeps environmental activists and media off the site where the 11 acres of oak tree woodlands are being bulldozed near Wilderness Park. It is called Santa Anita Dam Sediment Placement Site. Activists were unable to save the area from becoming a debris basin. See related story "Razing woodland: protesters watch as trees are cut down" Pasadena Star News, January 13, 2011, p. A1, A7.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 13, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 13, 2011
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p. A1, A7
Subjects
Activists
Environment
Los Angeles County Public Works
Oak trees
Santa Anita Dam
Item ID
32489AN
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A $222,000 study is underway to determine the strength of the Santa Anita Dam under extreme earthquake stress. The study is to be completed by February 1977.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 8, 1976
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 8, 1976
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Dams
Item ID
1403AN
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Uses of Santa Fe Dam considered.

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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 11, 1965
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p. 1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 11, 1965
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Dams
Item ID
3888AN
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Los Angeles County supervisor Mike Antonovich plans to set aside $650,000 of county funds to re-seed the oak woodland habitat in Arcadia that was demolished last week for flood control purposes, after mud and debris dredged from the Santa Anita Dam has been spread at the site. Bob Spencer, spokesman for Los Angeles County Department of Public Works, said there is much more debris poised to come down the hills and "We need to find a solution." Other county wilderness areas face destruction to make way for sediment. Officials are already considering the relocation of sediment from Devil's Gate Dam, which could end up on a 40-acre mature black willow woodland in the Hahamongna Watershed Park. Environmental activists won't let that happen without a fight.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32293
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 16, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A5
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 16, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A5
Subjects
Activists
Environment
Los Angeles County Public Works
Oak trees
Santa Anita Dam Sediment Placement Site
Spencer, Bob
Item ID
32492AN
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Chantry Flat Road, also known as Santa Anita Canyon Road, will reopen to the public on Wednesday, April 16, despite unfinished repairs. Fire in the Santa Anita Canyon had forced a 6-month closure of the road.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31236
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 17, 2003
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p. 19
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
April 17, 2003
Pages
p. 19
Subjects
Chantry Flat Road
Santa Anita Canyon Road
United States Forest Service
Item ID
31429AN
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Santa Anita Courthouse, located in Monrovia, which serves Monrovia, Arcadia, and Duarte, is being considered for shutdown by the Los Angeles Superior Court Executive Committee.

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Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 19, 2002
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p. 1
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Arcadia Weekly
Date
September 19, 2002
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Santa Anita Courthouse
Item ID
30763AN
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Environmental activists plan to block work crews from clearing 179 oak and sycamore trees, north of Arcadia. Bob Spencer, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Works, confirmed that construction would begin this morning to clear the 11 acres of trees, to make room for an estimated 500 cubic yards of sediment from Santa Anita Dam, as well as debris from seven other area catch basins. Spencer said, "The purpose behind this project is public safety; the damn built in 1927 does not meet seismic standards. Arcadia city manager Don Penman hopes that the several hundred thousand cubic yards of extra capacity is not an invitation for frequent trucking from other basins.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 12, 2011
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p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 12, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Activists
Environment
Los Angeles County Public Works
Oak trees
Santa Anita Dam
Spencer, Bob
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32488AN
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Groundbreaking ceremonies were held Monday for Santa Anita Medical Plaza, an 86,000 square foot medical office building located on a portion of the Santa Anita Park race track property, across from the Methodist Hospital of Southern California.

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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 13, 1984
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p. A-1
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Arcadia Tribune
Date
December 13, 1984
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Santa Anita Medical Plaza
Item ID
2381AN
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Bulldozers finished demolishing the 11 acres of oak tree woodlands in Arcadia, at the Los Angeles County Santa Anita Dam Sediment Placement Site yesterday. Four environmental activists, called "tree-sitters," were booked on trespassing and obstruction, then were later released. Los Angeles County Public Works said demolishing the 179 trees to make room for sediment dredged from nearby dams is a flood control effort necessary to ensure public safety. The bitter debate continues. Activists claim the project was not transparent to the public and media.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 14, 2011
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p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 14, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Activists
Environment
Kaspar, Michael
Los Angeles County Public Works
Mead, Cheryl
Oak trees
Quigley, John
Santa Anita Dam Sediment Placement Site
Spencer, Bob
Stone, Camron
Item ID
32491AN
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In the wake of Hurricane Katrina's destruction, experts warn that Southern California is not ready to handle the Big One-an earthquake of at least 7.0 magnitude. A photo of Santa Anita Dam is shown.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 11, 2005
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p. A1
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 11, 2005
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Natural disasters
Dams
Disaster preparedness
Earthquakes
Item ID
29888AN
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A brush fire that started Saturday in Santa Anita Canyon is being referrred to as the Santa Anita Fire. The fire is still raging in the mountains above Sierra Madre and Arcadia. It has destroyed 400 acres, forced the evacuation of 1000 people, and forced Sierra Madre to close its schools. Officials say it could take 4-7 days to contain the fire.

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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 28, 2008
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p. News 1, 6
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 28, 2008
Pages
p. News 1, 6
Subjects
Brush fires
Santa Anita Canyon
Santa Anita Fire
Item ID
31180AN
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U. S. Forest Service officials met with cabin owners and residence permit holders to hear concerns regarding evacuation of the Big Santa Anita Canyon area.

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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 1, 2004
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p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
October 1, 2004
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Big Santa Anita Canyon
United States Forest Service
Evacuations
Item ID
29373AN
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Santa Anita Gardens Catering Services threw an extravagant showcase event to celebrate and promote one of their two hosting venues, Arcadia's historic Prince Erik Hall, located at 2607 South Santa Anita Avenue, behind Arcadia Congregational Church.

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Newspaper
Mountain Views News
Date
May 2, 2015
Pages
p. 7
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Mountain Views News
Date
May 2, 2015
Pages
p. 7
Subjects
Boyd, Grace
Business and Industry
McQuilkin, Sandi
Santa Anita Gardens
Item ID
34358AN
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