The Colorado River Aqueduct begins at the Whitsett Pumping Plant on Lake Havasu. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) BySammy RothClimate Columnist June 18, 20246 AM PT Share Drought or no drought, El Niño or La Niña — the Golden State’s water warri...
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Figure 1: A Sacramento perch(Archoplites interruptus)caught at Lake Crowley in Mono County, California. Lake Crowley is a reservoir built in 1941 for storage along the Los Angeles Aqueduct. High elevation, cold waters provide quality habitat for a robust population of Sacramento perch. Photo by ...
Floods in March 1952 Businesses began to spring up alongVentura Blvdin the late ’40s and ’50s. With the last traces ofHollywoodglamour overwhelmed by filth, acidity, and decay in the suddenly scuzzy neighborhood, the film studios mostly moved over the mountains to the Valley. Many celebrities...
First, you tap Owens River Valley and sluice that water through the LA Aqueduct. Then, you move up to Mono Lake and get that water as well. So that’s one set of exploitations that has a far-reaching effect on the life that could have been lived by the Paiute and white settlers ...
an aqueduct to transport water to the San Joaquin Valley, an airport, a regional transportation terminal, and a high-speed military freeway connecting the Bay Area to Los Angeles. As World War II approached, Reber planned new military elements, including naval bases on filled land along the Ma...
Cracks formed in the ground and concrete along the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Rockslides occurred in the canyons. Elsewhere in the region of Walker Pass and the South Fork of the Kern River, adobe houses were damaged, brick chimneys cracked, and plaster fell. The earthquakes were felt from Com...
[26] Or, across the Sierras, perhaps Landscape Parliaments might grip onto the salty banks of the overdrawn Mono Lake, stripped of inflows that are gravity-fed southbound along the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Or, as traditional zoological gardens become less and less defensible, Things might colonize...
In a valley of dead rivers, each one killed on behalf of agriculture, the aqueduct was the one river still alive. Its artificiality had achieved a permanence; its permanence had created my California. I pull over into the dirt of a pomegranate orchard, the ancient fruit that the Resnicks ...
Southern California was more of a slumbering giant in the prewar years. The Depression sent the economy into a tailspin and saw the emergence of a mesmerizing religious figure named Aimee Semple McPherson. Voters approved the Colorado River Aqueduct, assuring water to the 13 cities of the Metrop...