CIENEGA TREATMENT CENTER

Cienega Treatment Center responds to the pre-existing urban conditions of Los Angeles in a variety of ways. Water quality, and the health and wellbeing of its citizens, are the primary focuses of CTC. These conditions are remedied with the integration of a constructed wetland system and a detoxification system. About 75% of the stormwater ends up flowing down the Los Angeles canals in a typical rainstorm and is lost to Santa Monica Bay and Long Beach Harbor. In Los Angeles, the homeless population has jumped 12% in the last 2 years. 44,000 homeless people were tallied in January 2015, up from more than 39,000 in 2013.