Ballona Creek
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Ballona Creek is an 8.5-mile (13.7 km) channelized stream in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, United States, that was once a "year-round river lined with sycamores and willows". The urban watercourse begins in the Mid-City neighborhood of Los Angeles, flows through Culver City and Del Rey, and passes the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Preserve, the sailboat harbor Marina del Rey, and the small beachside community of Playa del Rey before draining into Santa Monica Bay. The Ballona Creek drainage basin carries water from the Santa Monica Mountains on the north, from the Baldwin Hills to the south, and as far as the Harbor Freeway (I-110) to the east.
Centinela Creek, photographed from Mesmer Avenue Community Garden in 2024
"Ballona Drainage Project, September 1934"
Ferndell in Griffith Park is one of the streams in the far northeastern reach of the Ballona watershed
Mid City, Los Angeles
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Mid City is a neighborhood in Central Los Angeles, California.
Mid City neighborhood sign located at the intersection of La Brea Avenue and the Santa Monica Freeway
Mid-City Neighborhood planter decoration at Burnside Avenue crossing of Ballona Creek, Los Angeles, California
The Holmes-Shannon House in Victoria Park was built in 1911.
Apartment building at San Vicente and Pico boulevards