Judge Halts Dredging in Ballona Wetlands
A judge has ordered work stopped on a city project that involves dredging the Grand Canal area of the contentious Ballona wetlands.
The order, by a San Francisco Superior Court judge, came two days after the Wetlands Action Network filed a lawsuit against the city and the San Francisco-based California Coastal Commission, which approved the project in November.
The group contends the project would wipe out fish and marine invertebrates in the canal.
Work could resume late next week, when the court is scheduled to consider whether to extend the work stoppage with a preliminary injunction.
The project would clean and partially grade the 2,000-foot-long Grand Canal, the remnants of a tidal lagoon near Los Angeles’ Venice Canals. They underwent renovations of their own a decade ago.
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