{"id":3431,"date":"2014-05-12T20:45:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-12T20:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/in-pictures-25th-anniversary-of-the-great-l-a-river-cleanup\/"},"modified":"2019-06-18T01:03:30","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T01:03:30","slug":"in-pictures-25th-anniversary-of-the-great-l-a-river-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/in-pictures-25th-anniversary-of-the-great-l-a-river-cleanup","title":{"rendered":"IN PICTURES: 25th Anniversary of the Great L.A. River CleanUp"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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A quarter-century ago, the few Angelenos who knew of the Los Angeles River thought of it as a drag strip or a storm drain. Today, its restoration as \u201ca greenway from the mountains to the sea\u201d is a widely shared civic goal, inspired by Friends of the Los Angeles River\u2019s 25 years of organizing an annual river clean-up. From humble beginnings with only 10 volunteers in 1989, \u201cLa Gran Limpieza\u201d drew 3000 volunteers over three weekends to the river\u2019s banks and pulled approximately 25 tons of trash out of it\u2014trash that would otherwise end up in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n

Because of its growing civic importance, the river clean-up spans three consecutive Saturdays, starting in the Sepulveda Basin, moving last weekend to the Glendale Narrows, and concluding this past Saturday in the lower river near Long Beach.<\/p>\n

Text courtesy of Friends of L.A. River. All photos by Nicholas Noell<\/em><\/p>\n

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