ANTELOPE VALLEY : Erosion-Control Project Succeeds
Federal agriculture officials said Wednesday that an $800,000 project to control soil erosion and blowing dust on a tract of land in the Antelope Valley has been a success.
“The experiment has turned out well and we’d like to use it in many other places,” said Bob Dean, who is the Los Angeles County district conservationist for the U. S. Department of Agriculture’s Soil Conservation Service.
Under the project in the Lancaster area, about 2,400 acres of severely eroded, unused farmland between 90th Street West and 110th Street West north of Avenue D were plowed, seeded and fenced to reduce blowing dust.
Dean said officials are attempting to obtain funds to replicate the federally financed project elsewhere in the valley.
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