The Santa Ana River, born of snowmelt and natural springs ... a dozen other once beautiful rivers and streams have remained drainage channels. Their purpose is to prevent the flooding that ...

we are going to have a severe flooding problem all along this drainage. The people of Orange County worked for decades to gain approval for the Santa Ana River improvements. What a shame if the ...

Flowing 96 miles from its headwaters in the San Bernardino Mountains to drain in a watershed that spans four counties, the Santa Ana is the largest river entirely within Southern California. Its ...

ANAHEIM — It amounts to only a fraction of the more than 400 people living in tents and makeshift shelters pitched along a stretch of the Santa Ana River ... lack of proper drainage created ...

Nature trails could wind around water basins. These lofty ideas and others for the Santa Ana River came from UCLA Extension students, who developed a plan for a class project and presented it at ...

ground water basin.” One of the partners in the HCP, the Inland Empire Utilities Agency, is hoping the plan will allow the building of a project to divert water from the Santa Ana River and ...

Like the LA River, the Santa Ana has long been nothing more than a drainage channel (the LA River became an official "navigable waterway" in 2013), but new state legislation creates the Santa Ana ...

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Adapted to the boom-and-bust flood cycles of Southern California's rivers, the Santa Ana sucker now finds itself smack in the middle of one of the most urbanized places in North America. With its ...

A man was rescued by firefighters from the Orange County Fire Authority and the Anaheim Fire Department after he got trapped in the swollen Santa Ana River ... in a flooded drainage pipe.

"He rescued himself and ran away, " On Wednesday midday, concerned passersby noticed the dog on a spit of land in the Santa ...