Culver City’s green spaces are valued by the whole community, and many come from other cities to enjoy them as well. Syd Kronenthal Park, at 3459 McManus Ave. is treasured spot in the Arts District, named for the city’s original director of Parks, Recreation and Community Services. Two new projects are making it an even greener space for all to enjoy.
The new Compost Hub at Syd Kronenthal Park gives everyone a chance to join, keeping food waste out of landfill and turning it into garden-growing compost. The Park Stormwater Capture will create space to store water that would otherwise be lost to use by utilizing space under the playing fields.
Anyone can join the Compost Hub. Members can drop in during a hub’s open hours to add their food scraps to an on-site compost system. Benefits of joining this Community Compost Hub include flexible drop-off hours, access to finished compost, and connection to a community of fellow composters. Compost hub membership is free. Simply sign a membership agreement and you’ll receive instructions on how to access your selected hub at Kronenthal Park. Go to www.lacompost.org/composthub
The Syd Kronenthal Park Stormwater Capture Project is a wet-weather stormwater project that would be installed beneath the ballfields at Syd Kronenthal Park. A large subsurface stormwater storage gallery would collect water during wet weather and provide water storage. The collected water would provide year-round park irrigation and overages may be filtered, treated or diverted to sewer.
The Project could also potentially provide a dry weather flow and partial wet weather diversion from Adams Channel.
It could capture as much as 80% of the water-volume of the watershed area. The potential stormwater capture area of the original concept drainage area and the Adams Channel concept drainage area were determined to be approximately 77 acres and 6,785 acres, respectively.
Given its ideal location next to Ballona Creek just downstream of Adams Channel tributary, as well as the available public open space at the park to accommodate a regional BMP footprint, the project would be a valuable water quality asset.
Construction on the Stormwater Project is scheduled to begin in 2026, and more details will be available soon.
