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L.A. RIVER: The Christian Science Monitor focuses on the L.A. River:

Outside the city, the graffiti-lined concrete channel has become one of the best-known symbols of Los Angeles. Cutting a 51-mile swath through dozens of communities, the ominously abandoned flood-control ditch has often played the apocalyptic backdrop in major sci-fi films. (Who can forget that full-throttle semitruck skimming cement walls in pursuit of leather-clad über-hunk Arnold Schwarzenegger on a Harley hog in "Terminator II"?)

:: A previous L.A. River story.
:: Test results of river water.
:: City's ad hoc committee on the L.A. River.
:: L.A. River Connection, report: Reshaping the Urban Landscape
:: Needlework pattern inspired by the L.A. River.
:: About those "Terminator II" film locations, Reseda's among them.