Grant Haxton is shown at the retaining wall he built for his Eagle project at Lutheran Church in the Foothills. (Courtesy Boy Scout Troop 509 / June 9, 2014)

June 13, 2014 | 11:30 a.m.

Grant Haxton, 17, a junior at La Caada High School and a member of Boy Scout Troop 509 at JPL for the past six years, has earned the Eagle Scout rank. He will receive the award at a ceremony scheduled for 7 p.m. Friday, June 13 in Von Karman Auditorium. The public is invited.

For his Eagle leadership service project, Haxton built retaining walls on a slope on the Lutheran Church in the Foothill campus. He installed drip irrigation on an automatic timer, and amended the soil with compost. He organized four work days and directed the work of 22 others, totaling 454 hours of labor. The walls were built with stackable blocks donated by Angelus Block Co. and a concrete base donated by AMH Recycling.

At LCHS, Haxton is on the varsity water polo and swim teams and played freshman baseball.

-- Carol Cormaci, carol.cormaci@latimes.com

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COUNCIL bosses are being forced to splash out 500,000 on emergency repairs to a crumbling Gourock sea wall.

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COUNCIL bosses are being forced to splash out 500,000 on emergency repairs to a crumbling Gourock sea wall.

Urgent work is needed on the structure along the towns Kempock Street car park and it is expected to begin at the same time as the controversial 5.25m one-way redevelopment.

It comes after Inverclyde Council drafted in experts to survey the stability of the sea wall.

They soon discovered that a rapid quick-fix is needed to secure its long-term future.

But the repairs are set to cost 500,000 double the amount set aside for the work in the current budget.

Now officials have had to ask councillors to approve extra cash for the project.

It will be taken from the 2015/16 funding pot.

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Even a stream as benign as Joseph Creek can display the considerable power of water on surrounding features.

The City of Cranbrook has been working to fix an erosion problem at the corner of 15th Avenue South and 4th Street South, where a change in the creeks current as it passes under 4th Street has compromised the section of retaining wall alongside Rotary Way.

Les Hunter, Public Works Supervisor with the City of Cranbrook, said a willow tree trunk that was coming across the creek began directing the flow of water at the retaining wall.

The wall has been in place for about six years, Hunter said. And the tree must have moved, or shifted, and the creek current got underneath the blocks.

He said the current had dug a hole about four feet deep this year.

The City removed the tree in question, but a section of the retaining wall is still out of place. The City had to go through the Water Stewardship Branch of the Ministry of Environment to get a permit to do the work. And the next step is to fix the wall, but that work must wait until August. In a fish-bearing creek, Ministry regulations only allow for a certain time window, generally a couple of weeks in August, for such work to be done. According to Ministry regulations, to do work in a body of water such as Joseph Creek, one must have a plan drawn up by an environmental engineer.

Well be working with the engineers we have on contract Urban Systems to get the permit thats required, and rebuild the wall, Hunter said.

There is some similar erosion issues with Joseph Creek in behind Save-On Foods. Hunter said similar work will be taking place to fix the situation there.

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