SAN FERNANDO VALLEY : Pollution Fines to Fund Outdoor Education Classes
Pollution fines levied more than a year ago will fund an outdoor education program in the Sepulveda Basin Wildlife Area that will be offered to nearly 1,000 Los Angeles schoolchildren during the next year, the National Audubon Society has announced.
The pilot program will include classroom instruction and field trips to the 108-acre refuge near Burbank Boulevard and the San Diego Freeway that is a resting place for Canada geese and other migratory birds.
The program will be the first use of money that Audubon obtained 17 months ago when a Van Nuys manufacturing firm was fined for illegal toxic discharges into city sewers. The Los Angeles city attorney’s office, which obtained $165,000 from ICI Americas Inc., gave $82,500 apiece to Audubon and the environmental group Heal the Bay in May, 1991.
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