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| Tongva of Los Angeles, Chumash of Malibu, Acjachemem of Orange County (tongvatribe.net) |
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| JPL, waterway (swartzentrover.com) |
DEVIL'S GATE - In the Pasadena foothills (Los Angeles County), there is a dam placed above the world-famous Rose Bowl.
This is sacred First Nations (the
Tongva, the original inhabitants of L.A.) land known as
Xaxaamonga. It was taken over by an imperial army long ago, and that military force built a jet propulsion and skunk works laboratory (JPL) affiliated with nearby Caltech University.
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| Chris Nyerges in Hahamongna (latimes.com) |
The Hahamongna basin was once a great meeting place, a periodic city set up as the site of great gatherings of Native Americans from what is now the Los Angeles metropolitan basin, its eroding foothills, crowded coastal
zone (particularly Malibu), Catalina (part of the
Channel Islands), and modern Orange County.
That is all to be destroyed.
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| Angeles Nat'l Forest foothills, JPL (SH) |
A new plan aims to remove the land and truck it away in the name of "sediment clean-up." At an estimated cost of $70 million, the Hahamongna Watershed Park will more or less cease to exist as a natural habitat. No tree or vegetation will be left standing. In its place concrete, dirt, and rubble will remind local hikers of what was once pre-European-invasion life in the area.
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| The original inhabitants, the Tongva tribe of the Los Angeles basin (tongvatribe.net) |
Save Hahamongna!
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| LA County Flood Control District's EIR |
Hahamongna is a rare spot in the Arroyo Seco at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains where the natural watershed meets the urban plain. Periodically, flash floods roar into this basin. Bounded on the north by the mountains and an ominous Jet Propulsion Lab, on the south by Devil's Gate Dam, Hahamongna contains five unique
habitat zones that only exist in alluvial canyons near the mountains as well as
wildlife (birds, hawks, lions, deer, foxes, toads, bobcats). Most sites like this in Southern California have already been destroyed. Can we afford let Hahamongna go the way of other lost environmental treasures in Southern California.
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| The trucks are coming: 200,000 double-bed, diesel-spewing, street-clogging machines will cause noise, dust, and air pollution, destroying precious habitat (savehahamongna.org). |
Scraping the Bottom
André Coleman
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| Hahamongna trees (SH) |
City officials and local residents join forces against sediment removal plans for Devil’s Gate Dam. Pasadena officials opposed to a five-year, $70-million sediment clean-up of Devil’s Gate Dam in Hahamongna Watershed Park, which they say could increase health risks and negatively impact local traffic, are making their feelings known in a letter to L.A. County officials pushing the controversial project. County Public Works Department officials want to remove up to 4-million cubic yards of sediment and build up around Devil’s Gate Dam, located in the southern portion of the park, but the excavation would also force workers to remove trees and vegetation in the area.
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