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Ballona Water Arguement
People who live close to Ballona creek are accusing Industries for the contamination of the water. The thing that they would never think of was that it was the asphalt pit. When there is heavy rain, the asphalt pit would over flow and then it runs down into the sewer system, leaking into the creek and draining into the ocean. The Page Museum and Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County have paid local water controllers $15,000 dollars for discharging contaminated water into the storm drains in 2006. And in 2002, the Page Museum paid $3,000 to a coastal cleaning project to resolve a storm water release violation. This source is credible because it was written by Jasson Song and Tony Barboza. Their arguments are solid and clear. They cover

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