L.A. Planning Commission approves water plant overhaul in Atwater Village

The Los Angeles City Planning Commission has approved an overhaul of a water reclamation facility will bring new open space to the west bank of the Los Angeles River.

The project from the City of Los Angeles, planned at 4590–4610 and 4700 West Colorado Boulevard, is a modernization of the Los Angeles-Glendale Water Reclamation Plant. Plans call for demolishing an existing chlorine detention pond to make way for the construction of new wastewater treatment tanks, a personnel building, and a water purification demonstration facility among other improvements.

Construction is to occur in three phases, beginning with the removal and replacement of water infrastructure, followed by the construction of the new personnel building, and concluding with the new water purification facility. Over the two latter phases, plans call for the construction of approximately 18,000 square feet of publicly accessible open space along the riverfront, which will be separated from the water facility by a fence.

Plans indicate that Lehrer Architects is designing the new building, while Studio MLA is serving as landscape architect.

Construction is projected to occur over a roughly two-year period.

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