Honoring National Public Lands Day, the U.S. Army Corps

Honoring National Public Lands Day, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District, partnered with Los Angeles County, the Whittier Narrows Nature Center Associates and local volunteers, joined forces to clean up and remove trash from the San Gabriel riverbed at the Whittier Narrows Nature Center, Sept. 28. More than 100 volunteers covered a 1-mile stretch of the riverbed from the Nature Center to the Whittier Narrows Dam's San Gabriel Spillway picking up trash and buried debris. The debris consisted of shoes and shredded clothing, shopping carts, tires, plastic bottles and miscellaneous stuff totaling in all 6,500 pounds.