This is what a million dollars looks like.
This black mass in Silver Lake is millions of bird balls, made with big oil, from Exxon or Mobil. Hundreds of thousands of LA residents will drink this water.
Black bird balls fill Ivanhoe Reservoir; only one corner of clear open water remains, until they get more bags. These are untested HDPE plastic balls, cooking in the sun. They are unrecycled plastic, and 95% of this plastic is never recycled after use, either.
LA dwp filled Ivanhoe Reservoir in Silver Lake with plastic balls which have NOT been tested properly. The LADWP has lied about this. These bird balls will leach in the water for at least 4 years.
These plastic balls cost the city of LA one million dollars.
In the very top of this photo you can see a swimming grebe and 3 seagulls. They only have a few inches of water, but on this hot hot day, they are willing to share. They will soon have not even one inch of water.
Donna Barstow
Griffith Park is the 2nd biggest park in the US, and I'm just the person to investigate it! I've lived here for over 25 years. I was part of the PROS Committee in Griffith Park Neighborhood Council and am on the Housing & Tenants Rights Committee in the Silver Lake NC. I'm in the LA Press Club, and you can find some of my articles in the LA Weekly and the Los Feliz Ledger. I'm a cartoonist for Parade Magazine, The New Yorker, LA Times, Slate, & most major media. Questions and contacts welcome.
3 Comments
David Smith
Good, I am glad to see this product being used. So what the birds dont have enough water for them to swim. They are called bird balls for that reasons, to keep birds off of the water reservoir os they dont crap and spread dieseases in the water. These balls are normally used in wastewater lagoons.
Donna Barstow
How about water to DRINK, David, or stay safe, for water birds, so predators can’t get them?
And I believe you missed a point here: yes, they are usually used in bad water, but this is water the city of LA is drinking! Already 2 years of hdpe plastic in there. When’s the last time you sipped from a bottle of water left in your car? What did it taste like? The plastic, which leaches into the water!!
sandra
the balls are for decontamination of bromide that is in the water. the balls are put there so not allow the sun to penitrate it and make it more concentrated…. I am pretty sure the reason is not soley for birds…uv light doessomething to the water thats why they had to com up with this solution.