Sitting on kid-sized benches during Open House for the Henrietta Storm Water Basin Improvement Project and with our backs to the bright morning sun, John Dettle, P.E. and Engineering Manager for the City of Torrance, answered my questions about the Machado Lake Trash TMDL project. "You start with the regulations", he said. (J. Dettle, November 7, 2015). The US Environmental Protection Agency declared Machado Lake impaired in 1998 and 2002, and in 2008 the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) and the Los Angeles Regional Water Control Board (LAWB) established a total maximum daily load (TMDL) of zero trash in Machado Lake (LAWB, 2008). The TMDL states "agencies can comply with the requirements by installing full-capture trash screens
