Water Facilities in SFV Help Capture 120 Billion Gallons of Stormwater for LA County

When torrential rains occasionally pour down across Los Angeles, local residents worry about bad drivers, heavy traffic and being late for work. But one thing they can be grateful for is knowing that rainy days are a boon for local water facilities, where water is collected and can later benefit LA communities during drier times. In Sun Valley, a series of multiple interconnected open-dirt basins – with just the right combination of natural porous and gravelly soil, along with some vegetation – are capturing local rainfall and runoff from the San Gabriel Mountains flowing down through Hansen Dam. These “spreading…