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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
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 22, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 22, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Environment
Los Angeles County Public Works
Oak trees
Owens, Glen
Santa Anita Dam
Item ID
32434AN
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Newspaper Index
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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
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 16, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A5
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Newspaper
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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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
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 29, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 29, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Environment
Los Angeles County Public Works
Oak trees
Owens, Glen
Santa Anita Dam
Item ID
32446AN
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Newspaper Index
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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.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32292
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 14, 2011
Pages
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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Newspaper Index
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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
Pages
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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Newspaper Index
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Environmental activists are calling for an independent investigation into a Los Angeles County flood control project--6 days after they failed to stop bulldozers from clearing 11.1 acres of native oak woodland for a dam sediment dump in Arcadia. The group calling for the probe includes Glen Owens, Camron Stone, and "tree-sitters" John Quigley, Andrea Bowers and Julia Posin. Los Angeles County supervisor Michael Antonovich's deputy Tony Bell said the three-year county public works planning process for the sediment project was completely open and the facts were available to the public.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32295
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 18, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 18, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Activists
Bell, Tony
Bowers, Andrea
Environment
Los Angeles County Public Works
Oak trees
Owens, Glen
Posin, Julia
Quigley, John
Santa Anita Dam Sediment Placement Site
Stone, Camron
Item ID
32494AN
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Newspaper Index
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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.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32290
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 13, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A7
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Pasadena Star News
Date
January 13, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A7
Subjects
Activists
Environment
Los Angeles County Public Works
Oak trees
Santa Anita Dam
Item ID
32489AN
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Newspaper Index
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Santa Anita Dam viewed from south looking north into the mountains. This is located in Big Santa Anita Canyon. Taken by Wendell Stewart.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs381
Date
1927
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Date
1927
Subjects
Santa Anita Dam
Physical Description
6x10 b&w
ID
379
Collection
Photographs
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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.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper36459
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 2, 2023
Pages
p. H2
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 2, 2023
Pages
p. H2
Subjects
Aguilar, Carlos
Rain
Santa Anita Dam
Weather
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The State of California has required cities throughout Los Angeles County to adopt a program that will reduce trash and other pollutants in urban runoff. Arcadia's municipal code prohibits the dumping or discharging of water containing harmful chemicals or materials into city streets, catch basins, and storm drains.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30024
Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 5, 2001
Pages
p. 9
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Newspaper
Arcadia Weekly
Date
July 5, 2001
Pages
p. 9
Subjects
Water pollution
Storms drains
Pollutants
Item ID
30211AN
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Environmentalists, such as the Sierra Club in Pasadena and other groups, have requested an urgent meeting with Los Angeles County Department of Public Works officials to discuss last minute alternatives to the flood control project that would involve demolishing 11.1 acres of Arcadia woodlands. A 30-day moratorium on work at the site is ending in 2 days.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32277
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 4, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 4, 2011
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Environment
Los Angeles County Public Works
Oak trees
Santa Anita Dam
Item ID
32476AN
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2,100 cubic yards of concrete has been poured now and the 584-foot Gold Line Bridge is taking shape inside the wood forms above the eastbound lanes of the 210 Freeway.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33073
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 20, 2012
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 20, 2012
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Bridges
Construction
Leicester, Andrew
Light rail trains
Metro Gold Line Foothill Extension Construction Authority
Skanska USA Civil
Transportation
Item ID
33270AN
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Newspaper Index
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Santa Anita Dam, located in Santa Anita Canyon.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/photographs1190
Date
July 8, 1987
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Date
July 8, 1987
Subjects
Santa Anita Dam
Physical Description
4x6 color
ID
1181
Collection
Photographs
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This month's heavy rainstorms triggered as many as 18 mudslides. The first major slide deposited 6000 cubic yards of mud on a section of road in Arcadia. The road to Chantry Flat is closed until further notice.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29393
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 29, 2005
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 29, 2005
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Chantry Flat
Santa Anita Canyon Road
Mudslides
Rain damages
Item ID
29577AN
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Construction on Santa Anita Dam

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4013
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 17, 1969
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 17, 1969
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Dams
Item ID
3889AN
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Newspaper Index
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Whittier Narrows Dam project.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4014
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 1, 1947
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
June 1, 1947
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Dams
Item ID
3890AN
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Newspaper Index
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Uses of Santa Fe Dam considered.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper4012
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 11, 1965
Pages
p. 1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
February 11, 1965
Pages
p. 1
Subjects
Dams
Item ID
3888AN
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Newspaper Index
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Dams

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/subject72
Contents
1. City of Arcadia Dam Inundation Plan. City Hall publication, undated. 2. "Lake at Santa Anita Dam maintains 100-ft level during entire season as home for many game fish." News clipping, Pasadena Star News, March 11, 1929. 3a. Santa Anita Dam handout: property information, upstream face, perform…
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1. City of Arcadia Dam Inundation Plan. City Hall publication, undated.
2. "Lake at Santa Anita Dam maintains 100-ft level during entire season as home for many game fish." News clipping, Pasadena Star News, March 11, 1929.
3a. Santa Anita Dam handout: property information, upstream face, performance, design and construction, hydrology and hydraulics, monitoring and outlet works, projects. 3b. Santa Anita Debris Dam handout: property information, design and construction, reanalysis and studies, hydrology and hydraulics, monitoring and outlet works, future project, geotechnical investigation--sample locations, outlet tower, full basin-January 2005. Handouts were received by Jackie Faust-Moreno on September 12, 2011 when she toured the dam and debris sites.
Subjects
Dams
Item ID
75AF
Collection
Subject Files
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View across land near Colorado and Colorado Place looking southeast. Has large billboard reading: 500 yards to Dewey Butler's famous corn and melons grown on Rancho Santa Anita.

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Date
c.1939
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Date
c.1939
Subjects
Colorado Blvd
Colorado Place
Restaurants-Carpenter's Drive-in
Arcadia(City)-History-1930-1939
Physical Description
8x10 b&w
ID
8
Collection
Photographs
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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.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper1404
Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 8, 1976
Pages
p. A-1
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Newspaper
Arcadia Tribune
Date
August 8, 1976
Pages
p. A-1
Subjects
Dams
Item ID
1403AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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