June 2015, Vol. 70, No.6
Newsline
Underground Stormwater Filtration Systems To Be Built At LAX
Under a memorandum of understanding between the city of Los Angeles and Los Angeles World Airports, an agreement was signed in May that allows them to move ahead on a $40-million stormwater treatment project that has been delayed for five years.
One portion of the runoff will be funneled to the city’s Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant, which is located near the southwest corner of LAX. It will then be treated and released into Santa Monica Bay.
The rest, an estimated 100 million gallons per year, will be captured in an underground facility where the water will work its way into the groundwater basin.
Currently, stormwater that falls on LAX carries spilled fuels, oils, degreasers, metal particles and other compounds into Santa Monica Bay via drainage ditches – a violation of state and federal clean water standards.
Construction is scheduled to begin in the spring of 2017 with project completion in 2019.
About three-quarters of the expense will be covered by Proposition O, the clean water bond that Los Angeles voters approved in 2004.
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