Ballona Wetlands Public Hearing

On November 8th our coalition partner Ballona Institute mobilized community members to oppose the Ballona Wetlands Restoration Project Draft Environmental Impact Report (DEIR) at a public hearing. The proposed project would use millions of dollars in public money to bulldoze the Ballona Wetlands and create a brand new tidal wetland on the site.  Historical evidence suggests the Ballona Wetlands was never a tidal wetland but freshwater wetland whose water level fluctuated with the seasons.  This "restoration" project is not restoration, but new development project to create a completely new place more concerned about human utilization than wildlife protection.  The project is supported by SoCal Gas and "environmental" groups Bay Foundation, Heal the Bay, LA Waterkeepers and Friends of Ballona.  All the environmental groups supporting the project are all benefactors of donations from SoCal Gas.  We support Ballona Institute in declaring the only acceptable option in the DEIR is option 4: NO ACTION.  CA Dept of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) and the Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) are receiving public comment until February 5, 2018.  Please let them know you don't want to see Ballona Bulldozed and you don't want public money going to SoCal Gas.  You can find the DEIR here.   You can leave public comment with CDFW and ACE:
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CDFW: Richard Brody, CDFW
c/o ESA (jas)
550 Kearny Street, Suite 800
San Francisco, CA 94108
​Email: BWERcomments@wildlife.ca.gov
ACE: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Los Angeles District, Regulatory Division
ATTN: SPL-2010-01155 (Bonnie Rogers)
915 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 930
Los Angeles, CA  90017-3401
Email:  bonnie.l.rogers@usace.army.mil