L.A., Long Beach Ports Fund Ecological Study
The Port of Los Angeles on Wednesday joined the Port of Long Beach in a $750,000 study of the marine environment in the nation’s largest harbor complex.
The decision by the Los Angeles Board of Harbor Commissioners to join the study and pay $390,000 of its cost clears the way for another in a series of biological assessments and inventories of marine life that have been undertaken since 1970. The port has eel grass and beach habitat, which requires more to assess, and thus it is paying a greater share of the study.
The Port of Long Beach is paying $360,000.
Los Angeles harbor officials said the new study is needed because, since the last assessment in 1987, major changes have occurred in the ports--landfills for new terminals, channel improvements and better pollution controls.
They also said that understanding the harbor’s current biological conditions will assist in planning future facilities and securing project approvals from state and federal agencies. The new study is supposed to take a year.
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