LONG BEACH, CAILF., USA -- Maryanne Gibbons, hugs Los Angeles County Supervisor Don Knabe, under an electric sign cheering the completing of the Termino Avenue Drain Project in the 1200 block of Anaheim Street in Long Beach, Calif. on October 12, 2011. Her father, Edward Bielucke, right, lives on the block and has experienced flooding several times because the former drain was inadequate.
The Termino Avenue Storm Drain Project is a nearly two-mile long storm drain system designed to bring flood relief to southeast Long Beach. The $22.6 million drainage system has the capacity to manage storm flows of up to 703 cubic feet per second. (A cubic foot is equivalent to 7.5 gallons of water.) It replaces an existing drain that was undersized to serve the needs of the watershed.
PHOTO: No Flooding Ahead
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This blog is a journal of Southern California, through the lens of Jeff Gritchen. It's updated frequently with pictures, photo tips and musings from the various assignments he covers as a staff photographer for the Press-Telegram and Torrance Daily Breeze.
Gritchen has been documenting the diverse city of Long Beach since 1998. He covers everything from the Cambodian community to prep sports to gang ridden neighborhoods to the annual running of the Long Beach Grand Prix. He covered destruction Hurricane Katrina brought to Long Beach, Mississippi and traveled to Southeast Asia to document a rural Cambodian girl's as she traveled to the U.S. for life-altering heart surgery. He has won numerous state and national awards, including an international NPPA Best of Photojournalism award in 2003 and Best News Photo from the Los Angeles Press Club in 2010. In 2011, the photo staffs of the Long Beach Press-Telegram and Torrance Daily Breeze merged. Now he covers all of Southern Los Angeles County. He can be contacted at
jeff.gritchen@presstelegram.com
Gritchen has been documenting the diverse city of Long Beach since 1998. He covers everything from the Cambodian community to prep sports to gang ridden neighborhoods to the annual running of the Long Beach Grand Prix. He covered destruction Hurricane Katrina brought to Long Beach, Mississippi and traveled to Southeast Asia to document a rural Cambodian girl's as she traveled to the U.S. for life-altering heart surgery. He has won numerous state and national awards, including an international NPPA Best of Photojournalism award in 2003 and Best News Photo from the Los Angeles Press Club in 2010. In 2011, the photo staffs of the Long Beach Press-Telegram and Torrance Daily Breeze merged. Now he covers all of Southern Los Angeles County. He can be contacted at
jeff.gritchen@presstelegram.com
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