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managing, or diverting the flow of water in to
reduce risk from temporary flooding.
Engineering with Nature: The intentional
alignment of natural and engineering processes
to efficiently and sustainably deliver economic,
environmental, and social benefits through
collaboration. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
(USACE) Engineering With Nature® (EWN)
Initiative enables more sustainable delivery of
economic, social, and environmental benefits
associated with infrastructure.
Equity: Equity is about ensuring that people
have access to the same opportunities to thrive
and succeed. Examining decision-making
through an equity lens recognizes that people
may have different starting points and may need
different types and levels of support to flourish.
Thus, equity is achieved when socioeconomic
and environmental factors, such as race, income,
ability, education, or place, can no longer be
used to predict health, economic, or other
wellbeing outcomes. These outcomes are
not decided by an individual alone, but also
by characteristics of the physical and natural
environment, which are influenced by policies,
programs, and plans. They are also influenced
by the social and economic relationships that
govern the distribution of goods, services, and
other amenities in society. There are three
dimensions of equity:
• Procedural. Relating to influence in
decision-making, such as municipal
planning and other processes that distribute
benefits and burdens of economic and
social policies.
• Distributional. Relating to distribution of
resources, benefits, and burdens.
• Structural. Relating to continued disparate
or disproportionate procedural and
distributional inequities through the
systems that created the inequities in the
first place.
Extant Vegetation: The mix of plants and trees
present above ground in a vegetated area that
still exists from pre-urbanization conditions.
Fenceline: A boundary line created by a fence or
other linear element.
Flood Channel: Concrete or earthen channels
that convey water during large rain events. Flood
channels are sometimes built on the courses of
waterways as a way to reduce flooding. The LA
River and many of its tributaries operate as flood
channels.
Flood Control District: The Los Angeles County
Flood Control Act (ACT) was adopted by the
State Legislature in 1915, after a disastrous
regional flood took a heavy toll on lives and
property. The Act established the Los Angeles
County Flood Control District and empowered it
to provide flood protection, water conservation,
recreation and aesthetic enhancement within
its boundaries. The Flood Control District is
governed, as a separate entity, by the County of
Los Angeles Board of Supervisors.
Functioning Ecosystem: A dynamic complex of
plant, animal, and microorganism communities
and their non-living environment that exhibits
biological and chemical activities characteristic
for its type, regardless of whether the system
visually looks like a natural system.
Groundwater Basin: Groundwater stored in
an area with permeable materials below the
ground, typically capable of storing a significant
supply of water.
Habitat Linkage: A connection between large
areas of habitat that is typically vegetated.
Linkages are critical to provide sufficient habitat
for wide-ranging animal species with large home
territories as well as for other wildlife species.
Historic Floodplain: Areas subject to inundation
by the LA River and its tributaries and
distributaries prior to significant channelization
in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Hydraulics: Science that focuses on the
movement of water through channels, pipes,
and rivers.
Hydrology: The study of water, specifically its
properties, movement, and interaction with land,
and how it affects the earth and atmosphere.
Infiltration: The gradual flow or movement of
water into and through (to percolate or pass
through) the pores of the soil.
Injection: An injection well is a device that
places fluid deep underground into porous rock
formations, such as sandstone or limestone, or
into or below the shallow soil layer.
Invasive Species: An alien species whose
introduction does or is likely to cause economic
or environmental harm or harm to human
health. (Source: USDA)
Landside (Levee): The area from the edge of the
crown to the toe of the levee opposite of the
riverside or creekside.
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