Press Release: Councilman To Celebrate Completion of Garvanza Park Project Thursday

Councilmember José Huizar, Bureau of Sanitation and Recreation and Parks officials will be joined Thursday morning by students and community members for the Grand Reopening of Garvanza Park and the Garvanza Park Rainwater Irrigation Project--a $3.8 million stormwater facility that will collect runoff from an 85-acre area of Garvanza and Highland Park. 

The state-of-the art system cleans the captured water through a hydrodynamic separator and filtration system, and stores it in two underground cisterns beneath Garvanza Park with a combined storage capacity of one million gallons. 

Water in one detention tank will be used for sub-grade irrigation at the park; the other will be infiltrated into the ground to recharge the water table.

The first of its kind in the Northeast area, the Garvanza Park project, which was implemented by the Bureau of Sanitation in coordination with Northeast Trees, will achieve multiple benefits including preventing urban runoff from spilling into the Arroyo Seco.

Huizar also worked with the Department of Recreation and Parks to install five new pieces of outdoor fitness equipment as part of his plan to foster healthy living and exercise by installing exercise equipment in as many parks in his district as possible.

WHEN: March 15, 2012, 9 a.m. 

WHERE: Garvanza Park, 6240 Meridian St. 90042 

WHO: Councilmember José Huizar; Enrique Zaldivar, Bureau of Sanitation Director; John Choi, President Pro Tem Board of Public Works; Jon Kirk Mukri, Recreation & Parks General Manager; Mark Kenyon, Exec. Dir. North East Trees; Burbank Middle School Drum line and Drill team; Garvanza Elementary School students, community members