Editing Los Angeles River (section)

=== After World War II ===
The river was dry for nine months of the year as late as the 1950s. According to an August 2013 article in the ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', the water in the river today is largely "industrial and residential discharge," which originates from the "two giant pipes that collect the sewage from the homes of 800,000 San Fernando Valley residents" that lead to the [[Tillman Water Reclamation Plant]], "before crashing over a man-made waterfall into Lake Balboa. That body of water, along with two smaller ones, puts 23 million gallons of water a day into the river at Sepulveda Basin."<ref>{{Cite news
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| quote = Angelenos' vision of their river is created from a made-up memory. Historically, the river has been dry for most of the year. Now, it flows continually, but most of the water in the channel is industrial and residential discharge |date=2013-08-16|title=Angelenos' vision of their river is created from a made-up memory|url=https://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-smith-river-20130816-story.html|access-date=2022-02-02|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|language=en-US}}</ref>
[[File:2021-10-05 14 20 34 View southwest along the Los Angeles River and Interstate 710 towards the Port of Long Beach in southern Los Angeles County, California from an airplane heading toward Los Angeles International Airport.jpg|thumb|LA River in October 2021]]
Despite the heavy flood flows of the river during winter months, the LA river has become a refuge for marginalized communities, such as migrant, homeless, and diverse sociocultural communities. For a time, the river itself was a geographical divide between East L.A., which is largely Latino, and predominantly white, wealthy West L.A.<ref name=":02"/> These minority groups established themselves along the banks of the river, using fish for food. A distinguished link between the LA river and marginalization can be seen through time as a 1909 New York Times article describes these communities as poor transient communities that consume diseased fish to sustain themselves.{{Citation needed|date=June 2024}}

Remediation efforts in order to tame the river along with the construction of highways in the 1950s and 1960s displaced hundreds of thousands of individuals. These implications lead to poor air quality and increased exposure to diseases that inhibit good health.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-01-11 |title=Frank Gehry's bold plan to upgrade the L.A. River seeks to atone for past injustices |url=https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2021-01-11/frank-gehry-plan-los-angeles-river |access-date=2022-04-06 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}</ref>