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A Los Angeles County Department of Public Works sign along 7th Street in downtown Los Angeles. The department was formed in 1985 in a consolidation of the county Road Department, the Flood Control District (in charge of dams, spreading grounds, and channels), and the County Engineer (in charge of building safety, land survey, waterworks).
Until 1925, raw sewage from Los Angeles was discharged untreated directly into Santa Monica Bay in the region of the Hyperion Treatment Plant. [ 3 ] With the population increase, the amount of sewage became a major problem to the beaches, so in 1925 the city built a simple screening plant in the 200 acres (0.81 km 2 ) it had acquired in 1892.
County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund , No. 18-260, 590 U.S. ___ (2020), was a United States Supreme Court case involving pollution discharges under the Clean Water Act (CWA). The case asked whether the Clean Water Act requires a permit when pollutants that originate from a non-point source can be traced to reach navigable waters through ...
There are about 46,000 homeless people in the city of Los Angeles — and more than 32,000 of them live outside on sidewalks, under overpasses and in vehicles. That's a lot of possessions in tents ...
The Hawaii Supreme Court will be asked to weigh in on an issue that threatens to thwart a $4 billion settlement in last year's devastating Maui wildfires. Judge Peter Cahill on Maui agreed Friday ...
The other two were the 2021 Marshall Fire in Colorado, which burnt more than 6,000 acres and 1,000 homes in Boulder County, and August 2023 Lahaina Fire in Maui, which took more than 100 lives and ...
California v. Greenwood, 486 U.S. 35 (1988), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the Fourth Amendment does not prohibit the warrantless search and seizure of garbage left for collection outside the curtilage of a home.
Los Angeles County Treasurer and Tax Collector bills, collects, invests, borrows, safeguards and disburses monies and properties in Los Angeles County. The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors appoints the treasurer to this position. The previous treasurer was Keith Knox. [1] The current treasurer is Elizabeth Ginsberg. [2]