Received a call from the Water Department this morning about a water main break at the intersection of Palo Verde and Spring Streets.
I later went to the site, where I found a crew of Water Department men digging and shoveling to locate the problem and fix it.  It was a little cold out there so […]

While attending a press conference at the El Dorado Duck Pond regarding the unveiling of the new signs telling visitors that feeding the ducks and birds in the pond is harmful to them, I talked with a couple of families who had come with bread and seed in hand to feed the ducks.
Of the five […]

 The Lakes, Ponds and Wetlands Task Force unveiled the new signs that are posted around the “duck pond” reminding people not to feed the ducks or other birds in the city’s man-made bodies of water.
The Task Force started a year ago after 5th District resident, Jill Brennan, brought to my attention the death of over […]

Lordy, lordy. Here I thought it was a good idea to ask the Water Department to change the labeling on the bottled water it provides only to the City Council to make it clear that it was good, ole tap water — so we could educate residents they don’t need to buy bottled water from […]

No, this isn’t the title of a “spagetti western” it is the unfortunate announcement that a large number of fish died at the El Dorado Duck pond last week due to an extremely significant algae bloom that absorbed much of the oxygen in the pond. The algae bloom was noticed and last Friday and the Duck […]

At the recent Mayors’ Conference, Long Beach was one of five cities whose municipal water was rated as tasting great in the City Water Taste Test. The finalists: St. Louis (which was picked as the winner); Anaheim, Calif.; Colorado Springs, Colo.; and Toledo, Ohio.
The purpose of the contest was to highlight the facts that cities provide […]

City Council held a study session earlier today to listen to a staff report on the issues impacting the quality of water in our recreational areas. Included in the information was an update on our beaches and the outflow of the Los Angeles River into the Queensway Bay. Also discussed was the status of locating […]

Bright and early this morning, a room full of officials from the State Department of Health Services, the California Environmental Protection Agency (California Regional Water Quality Control Board), Boeing Corporation, Douglas Realty, a representative from the City of Lakewood, a representative from the City of Long Beach Health Department, my chief of staff and I, met […]

No cases of West Nile Virus have been reported in the City of Long Beach in 2007 but the virsu has been detected in 15 of California’s 58 counties, including Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and San Diego. These detections have been found in 58 dead birds, 33 mosquito samples, two sentinel chickens and two […]

More than 25 members of the public have signed up to go on a “field trip” tomorrow, Saturday, June 23 beginning at 10 am, to view first hand the City’s lakes, ponds and wetlands and to review the status of their condition as this task force puts together recommendations on how we can improve conditions […]