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Remaking the Los Angeles River
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is reevaluating itself in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. This week Living on Earth looks at the past, present and future of the agency and its work.
In California, the Corps rechanneled the once-meandering Los Angeles Rive
Straightened, lined with concrete, filled with treated sewage, is there still a river in the Los Angeles River? Angelenos are saying yes, and demanding that planners and engineers go to lengths, even great lengths, to bring back a stream Los Angeles can call its own. Ilsa Setziol reports.