June 6, 2008--Critics fault Army Corps designation of part of LA River (Denver Post)
Environmentalists on Thursday charged that a decision by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers fails to ensure federal clean water protections to the entire Los Angeles River. David Beckman, an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council, said the decision to give a two-mile stretch of the upper river the designation of "traditional navigable water" means that tributaries upstream would be likely to get federal clean water protections. Beckman faulted the corps for not making the same determination about the rest of the river.
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