Los Angeles Dam and Reservoir Project, San Fernando Valley, Los Angeles County, California
Author: United States. Federal Disaster Assistance Administration. Region Nine
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 658
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Federal Disaster Assistance Administration. Region Nine
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 658
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Federal Disaster Assistance Administration
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Published: 1975
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Federal Disaster Assistance Administration. Region Nine
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 478
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Catherine Mulholland
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2002-05-06
Total Pages: 476
ISBN-13: 9780520234666
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mulholland presided over the creation of a water system that forever changed the course of Southern California's history. In the first full-length biography of the water and civil engineer, his granddaughter provides insights into the triumphant completion of the Owens Valley Aqueduct and the San Francisquito Dam tragedy that ended his career. Archival photos. 7 maps.
Author: John Nichols
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2002-10-01
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780738520797
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Minutes before midnight on the evening of March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed. The dam's 200-foot concrete wall crumpled, sending billions of gallons of raging flood waters down San Francisquito Canyon, sweeping 54 miles down the Santa Clara River to the sea, and claiming over 450 lives in the disaster. Captured here in over 200 images is a photographic record of the devastation caused by the flood, and the heroic efforts of residents and rescue workers. Built by the City of Los Angeles' Bureau of Water Works and Supply, the failure of the St. Francis Dam on its first filling was the greatest American civil engineering failure of the 20th century. Beginning at dawn on the morning after the disaster, stunned local residents picked up their cameras to record the path of destruction, and professional photographers moved in to take images of the washed-out bridges, destroyed homes and buildings, Red Cross workers giving aid, and the massive clean-up that followed. The event was one of the worst disasters in California's history, second only to the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire.
Author: Abraham Hoffman
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 364
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Annotation. Seventy-five years ago the growing city of Los Angeles, amid considerable conflict, appropriated water from a rural area 250 miles away. Still unresolved, the controversy surrounding the Owens Valley-Los Angeles Aqueduct has long since moved from the personal, even violent level fictionalized in the movie Chinatown to the dry realm of court proceedings, injunctions, and environmental impact reports. But water remains a problem in California, and the questions raised by these events--the rights of a rural area versus a growing metropolitan area, environmental issues, and levels of government responsibility--are of recognized national importance today.