Contract Awarded for Lang Ranch Dam Project
- Share via
A Redding construction firm will be paid $3.8 million to build the Lang Ranch Dam.
The Ventura County Board of Supervisors this week unanimously approved a contract with Ladd and Associates to build the 66 1/2-foot-high embankment with detention and debris basins.
Ventura County flood control officials maintain that the dam is needed to protect residents downstream in the event of a catastrophic storm.
A group of opponents filed a lawsuit earlier this year seeking to halt the project but dropped the suit last week after the county made it clear it would go forward despite pending litigation.
More From the Los Angeles Times
Podcasts
The latest effort is coming from the L.A. County Board of Supervisors. They just announced a $3 million program in conjunction with some nonprofits groups to test and clean the soil at homes still standing in the areas impacted by the Eaton Fire.
The Hillside Strangler murders terrorized Los Angeles in the late 1970s. The killers were a pair of sadistic cousins. One confessed. The other was set to stand trial—until L.A. prosecutors flinched.
Hosts Fidel Martínez and Suzy Exposito sit down with Dr. Vanessa J. Díaz, professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at Loyola Marymount University and co-author of P FKN R: How Bad Bunny Became the Global Voice of Puerto Rican Resistance.
