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RESOLUTION NO! 1266.
A RESOLUTIOK OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA RE~UESTING THE BOPL"lD OF.
&UPERVISORS OF LOS AJ:!GElES COUNTY AND ':HE LOS ANGELES CCOl;'l'Y FLOOD
COIlTTICL DISTRICT TO COili1ECT C01IDITIC!l DJ SA~1TA MJITA rJASH CAUSED BY THE
DEPOSITING IN THE CHAmlEL THEREOF OF SILT AND DEBRIS.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA DOES TIESOLVE I'.S FOLLO'.7S:
SECTION 1. ;v.HEJEAS, Colorado Boulevard is a main thorouehfare
throUJh the City of Arcadia and the traffic thereon is heavy at 0.11
seasons of the year, oc1d
,~rlEREAS. said 30u1evard crosses the Santa Anita ~ash in the
City of Arcadia, and
r.'.HE:\2AS. fOl~ the pur po se of handling tho '.'Jate:rs flowing Ull.der
Colorado Boulevard in the Santa Anita ~ash the City has caused three
culverts to be constructed under the paving of said Boulevard. and
\1HEREAS, by l'eason of the fact that the Los Angeles County
Flood Control District for the past several months has been sluicing
debris and silt fro~ the reservoir immediately above tho Santa Anita
Dam in said ~ash, thereby causing said silt and debris tv be moved
down strero4 frOM said reservoir, which has res~lted in the stream bed
of the channel both up stream and doPn stream from Colorado Boulevard
being filled by said silt and debris to the extent that said streaQ
bed is nou not more than one toot 10~er than the paving on Colorado
Boulevard where it crosses Santa Anita ~ash. and
~~REAS. the culverts under said paving have oecome comp1etp,ly
filled with said silt and debris by reason of said stream bod being
filled in the manner stated herein, and
;;llEREAS. in tne opinion of this Council it will be useless
to clean out said cu1ve~ts until such time as the stream bed of the
wash is lowered for several hundred yards both up stream and dO\7U stresm
frmn said crossing. and
\7HEREAS. unless said cond..;.tion is corrected this Council be-
lieves th~t the continued release of silt and debris fro~ said reservoir
will continue to fill said stream bed until the same will be es hiGh or
higher than the surface of the paving on Colorado Boulevard at said point.
thereby causing ordinary flood ~aters to leave the natural channel and
damage adj acen t prope!'ty. and
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rmEREAS, any considerable amount of water flo~ing down said
wash will carry silt and debris across and over said hiGhway to such
an extent that said highway will become impassable, and
VfrlEREAS, this Council 1s of the opinion that by reason of the
easement held by tho Los An~eles County Flood Control District for the
handling of flood ~aters in said wash, it does not have any right or
authority to release silt and debris in said ~ash to the detriment of
road instellations made by the City of Arcadia, or to the detriment of the
citizens of this County in denying them tho right to normal uso of an
arte:rial hiehl'lay, 11nd
~VHEREAS, the condition described herein has been heretofore
called to the attention of th$ Los An~eles County Flood Control District
by the City Engineer of the City of Arcadia who has requested the con-
dition bo corrected, and the Los Angeles County Flood Contrel District
thrOUGh its Division Engineer has informed the City En~ineer of the City
or Arcadia. that the County Flood Control District does not deem it to be
a propor function of that Body to correct the condition in said wesh, and
rrnER2AS, this Council is not willing to accept the vierys of the
Flood Control District without protest,
NO':I, TmJU;F'ORE, BE IT RESOLVED AS FOLLO'.1S:
(a). That this City Council does hereby protest the furtho~
sluicing of silt and debris from the reservoir immediately above the
Santa Anita Dam without adequately providing for the disposition of said
silt and debris in a manner which TIill not be detrimental to tho hi3hrray
systSQ, and which uill eliQ!nate flood danger to the property in tho
Ci ty of Arcadia.
(b). That this City Council does hereby urge the Board of
Supervisors of Los ruo:eles County and the Flood Control Distri~t to cause
the silt ~nd debris heretofore deposited in said wash adjacent to
Colorado Boulevard .to be removed frcm thestrea:n bed of said 11e.sh so that
said uash can carry flood waters uithout causir~ dama~e to Colorado
Bol<.levard at the point \7here it crosses said Santa Anita '~Iash.
SECTION 2. The City Clerk is authorized and he 1s hereby
instructed to cause certified copies of this ~e~olution to be ::l3d
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with the Los An~e:es County Flood Control District and the Board of
Supervisors of Los AnGeles County.
SEC~I0N 3., The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this
:1eoolution.
I hereby certify that the for~boing Resolution IT~S adopted at
a regular meetinG of the City Council of the City of Arcadia, held on
the Sth day of October, 1943, by the affirmative vote of at least
three Councilmen, to-~it:
AY3S: Councilmen, ~dcock, Jonas, Leepor, Nu:ent and Ormsby
!{OES: None
ABSENT: None
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Si3ned and approved this '1tn day of October, 1943.
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