$120,000 To Find Fix For Dying Legacy Park Trees
Written by 991KBU on June 15, 2018
The City of Malibu is about to spend $120,000 to figure out what to do with poor Legacy Park.
Or rather … the dying trees and bushes there
The original native planting plan included over 700 trees and shrubs as well as thousands of smaller plants .… most of those have died.
Replaced by invasive weeds and grasses.
The problem was that saltwater was accidentally pumped onto the plants by the city’s high-tech stormwater cleaning System.
You may remember …. that was the system that won all the engineering awards???
Not only were 50 percent of the original trees killed by saltwater … only 10% of the replacement trees planted as a rescue effort survived.
That’s according to a city report released yesterday.
It’s makeover time… but even that has failed.
Only one bidder on the complicated project.
Now the city is splitting the project in half … one half for the design and the other half for the build.
The design will cost $120,000 … and when recycled water comes available from the sewer plant in a year … then comes the bill to replace the trees and plants.
No idea how much that will cost.
And there’s no word if the city will have to give back all those engineering awards.
WEB BONUS!
List of all the awards that the city won for the Legacy Park water reclamation project … the one that is failing and will cost a half million or so to fix:
Legacy Park Project Awards
- Outstanding Stormwater Best Management Practice (BMP) Implementation – Comprehensive Regional Project – Presented by California Stormwater Quality Association (CASQA), September 2011
- 2011 Outstanding Sustainability Project – Presented by the Metropolitan Los Angeles Branch of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), October 2011
- 2011 B.E.S.T Creative and Innovative Project of the Year – Presented by American Public Works Association, Southern California Chapter, December 2011
- 2011 Outstanding Sustainability Project – Presented by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Los Angeles Section, October 2011 • 2011 Engineering Achievement Award – Presented by Water Environment Association, Los Angeles Basin Section, December 2011
- Project of the Year – Presented by the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), Region 9, February 2012
- 2012 Water Quality Improvement Award – Presented by the Water Environment Federation, October 2012
- 2012 Water Reliability 2020 Award – Presented by West Basin Municipal Water District, October 2012
- 2013 Helen Putnam Award – Public Works, Infrastructure and Transportation – Presented by the League of California Cities, September 2013
