2023: Project permits were obtained, and the final review of the plans, specifications and cost estimate was conducted.
2022: Final plans, specifications and cost estimate continue to be finalized. Moreover, additional environmental analysis was completed and progress was made in permit approvals.
2021: Design plans are being revised to incorporate constructability, environmental, and safety measures determined by previous analyses.
2020: Third-party analysis is requested by Board of Supervisors to ascertain ways to improve project schedule, cost, and constructability; Additional environmental analysis is performed to determine if any additional impacts from off-site truck hauling, compaction methods, and passive methane treatment system.
2018 to 2019: Extensive geotechnical testing and investigations including compaction testing and additional borings are performed which inform the development of the design plans; it is determined that larger amounts of earth will need to be removed and require hauling off-site; discussions begin with landfill groups to find suitable disposal locations.
2017: Over & Over, Ready Mix vacates the site; Site demolition, trash and waste removal, and site investigations including ground penetrating radar are performed to identify underground utilities and storage tanks.
2015 to 2016: The design plans are redesigned to address the discovery of the organic landfill material, this involved the realignment of park features, rephasing of the project construction, and addition of a passive methane treatment system.
2014: Geotechnical investigations including 20 test pits and 15 borings are performed over the Strathern Pit and Over & Over site; organic trash and methane from the previous Newberry Landfill is discovered underneath the northern portion of the site; additional methane testing is conducted along northern boundary of site; Rory M. Shaw Wetlands Park Groundbreaking Ceremony.
2013: The project name is changed from Strathern Wetlands Park to Rory M. Shaw Wetlands Park in memory of Rory M. Shaw, an engineer with the City of Los Angeles who lost his life while helping repair a sinkhole during the 2005 storms.
2011: Series of three workshops are held to obtain feedback from the community
on
their
needs and design features of the park.
2009 to 2012: Land acquisition process is completed. Concrete mixing company
(Over
&
Over, Ready Mix) decides to remain on site and continues to operate until the end of their lease
in
2017.
2008 to 2009: Strathern Pit site is purchased by LA County; Former company (LA
By-Products)
continues to fill the site until they are required to cease operations and vacate site.
2007: Tuxford Green Multiuse Project is completed.
2006: Sun Valley Park Drain and Infiltration System is completed; Design
consultant is
on-boarded to begin conceptual development of the Strathern Wetlands Park.
2004: Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approve the Sun Valley Watershed
Management
Plan.