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Regional board backs council motion to form sewage‑spill notification task force; council amends motion to include Los Angeles River
Summary
A representative of the California Regional Water Quality Control Board urged the City Council to support a motion creating a task force to speed public notification after sewage spills. Councilmembers proposed and seconded an amendment to extend the task force's scope to include spills affecting the Los Angeles River and Tujunga Wash.
A senior engineer from the Los Angeles regional office of the California Regional Water Quality Control Board told the Los Angeles City Council that the agency supports a council motion to form a task force to improve public notification of sewage spills and beach closures.
Samuel Unger, identified in the transcript as a senior water quality control engineer with the regional board, said the board wants to participate in the task force, arguing the existing program “is inadequate as evidenced by the events of 11/03/2001” when, he said, a…
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