Our LA Watershed!The main la watershed areas include Los Angeles River, Sun Valley, San Gabriel River, Ballona Creek North Santa Monica Bay, Dominguez, Santa Clara River and Antelope Valley. An understanding of how these watersheds affect our drinking water will bring you into a position of being able to really do something about your drinking water and that of you health and longevity.
As reported by the Department of Public Works the Los Angeles River Watershed covers a land area of over 2,135 square kilometers (834 square miles) from the eastern portions of Santa Monica Mountains, and Simi Hills, and Santa Susana Mountains to the San Gabriel Mountains in the west. The watershed encompasses and is shaped by the path of the Los Angeles River, which flows from its headwaters in the mountains eastward to the northern corner of Griffith Park where the channel turns southward through the Glendale Narrows before it flows across the coastal plain and into San Pedro Bay near Long Beach. The Los Angeles River Watershed has diverse patterns of land use. The upper portion of the watershed, 920 square kilometers (approximately 360 square miles), is covered by forest or open space, while the remaining watershed, 1,215 square kilometers (approximate 474 square miles), is highly developed with commercial, industrial, or residential uses. There are eight major tributaries to the Los Angeles River as it flows from its headwaters to the Pacific Ocean. What a mouthful. And along this LA Watershed there are a mass amount of major and minor tributaries feeding this long and snaking waterway. To sum up, The Los Angeles River Watershed has impaired water quality in the middle and lower portions of the basin due to runoff from dense clusters of commercial, industrial, residential, and other urban activities. The 1998 303d list impairments in a majority of the watershed are due to point and nonpoint sources. These impairments include the following: pH, ammonia, a number of metals, coliform, trash, scum, algae, oil, chorpyrifos as well as other pesticides, and volatile organics. We should pray that this assessment of toxins comes up as a zero when it comes to our drinking water. Metals, Coliform, Trash, Algae, Pesticides. Our la watershed is loaded with various readings depending on the level of the watershed and the policing and or responsibility levels of those occupying the upstream areas of the various la watershed locations. Facts are, our Public Works are policed by men and women of good intent. They dedicate their careers to the protection, purification and delivery of high quality drinking water. Although the end result is far from a zero reading, infact with also additives of carsonogenics like chlorine and florine, it arrives in a state that will not have you drop dead in the short term. So despite the condition of the water that arrives on your end of the tap after its amazing journey through the las watershed, it is your responsibility to ensure that you water is now correctly purified and above all, corretly restructured. A high quality mineralised water is the basis of good health and longevity. This is a responsible step to take. There are two basic steps involved in this, each of which are fast, simple and cost effective. I call it The ultimate Drinking Water! You can call it what you like. Warmly, Mike King
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