Dominguez Channel

Dominguez Channel
Location
CountySouthern Los Angeles County
StateCalifornia
CountryUnited States
Physical characteristics
SourceLocal drainage system
 • locationHawthorne
MouthSan Pedro Bay, Pacific Ocean
 • location
Wilmington at East Basin, Port of Los Angeles
Basin sizeDominguez Watershed
133 sq mi (340 km2)

Dominguez Channel (Spanish: Canal de Domínguez)[1] is a 15.7-mile-long (25.3 km)[2] stream in southern Los Angeles County, California, in the center of the Dominguez Watershed of 133 square miles (340 km2).[3]

The watershed area is 96 percent developed and largely residential. Subsurface storm drain tributaries and open flood control channels flow into the channel.[4] The channel originally was named after a racial slur but was changed to Laguna de Los Dominguez in 1938.[5]

  1. ^ Telemundo - Revelan el origen de un misterioso mal olor en Los Ángeles que causaba "daños físicos" a los residentes
  2. ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map Archived 2012-03-29 at the Wayback Machine, accessed March 16, 2011
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference DB 2022-04-21 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Dominguez Watershed Current Conditions". Los Angeles County Department of Public Works. Retrieved August 8, 2009.
  5. ^ "A massive fire unleashed a flood of toxic runoff, triggering an environmental disaster". Los Angeles Times. March 8, 2022. Retrieved March 10, 2022.