Posted in Silver Lake, Important Stuff on Jun 11th, 2008 3 Comments »
The bird balls DWP dropped into Ivanhoe with much fanfare this week were tested by NSF for one condition only: whether or not they leach chemicals into water that is exactly 73.4 degrees Fahrenheit. These bird balls passed that test, but have not been tested (or they failed) for everything else!
Numbers, please. Photo from […]
Posted in Silver Lake, Important Stuff on Jun 9th, 2008 3 Comments »
Now the LA Times is FINALLY noticing what I’ve been talking about for months: the bird balls are coming, and have arrived. They have pictures up there.
Photo from LA Times blog. I would write to them to get permission, but every time I do that, no one answers.
The writer compares it to Chuck E. Cheese […]
Posted in Silver Lake, Important Stuff on May 27th, 2008 No Comments »
Of the myriads of people in this state I’ve been talking with recently, I was most impressed by the excellent Pete Weisser of the Department of Water Resources. He won a Lifetime Achievement Award from the California State Information Officers Council (SiOC) and he was in the California Health Department investigating the Anacin laced […]
Posted in The Land the Times Forgot, Silver Lake, Important Stuff on May 6th, 2008 No Comments »
Late this afternoon someone from the state called me to say DWP has promised to start refilling Silver Lake at 8 AM on Wednesday. There will be a press conference. Why?
I was very happy to get the news, but you heard it here first: I predict (very unhappily) that they will drag out the refilling […]
Posted in Silver Lake, Important Stuff on May 5th, 2008 1 Comment »
Julian Harris-Calvin, Councilman Tom LaBonge’s assistant, a cheerful girl with a very busy schedule, said Marty Adams, some kind of scientist, would call me. He didn’t. I finally got him the next week.
We talked for a good 40 minutes. Surprise -he’s not a scientist! He’s a PR spokesman for DWP, and I see him quoted […]
Posted in Silver Lake, Important Stuff on Apr 12th, 2008 2 Comments »
Remember how I told you the LA DWP didn’t have email? Now they do! And I’ll give it to you at the end, along with a phone number, if you want to skip down there with your own important questions. Or complaints.
I called Joseph Ramallo, the person who signed the DWP public letter on their […]
Griffith Park, Interrupted
An urban forest was on fire; an urban lake put it out. Griffith Park and Silver Lake in Los Angeles.
