California’s big, storied past gets a nuanced, superbly researched retelling in one volume The Los Angeles Aqueduct in the Owens Valley. How L.A. got its water is one of the master narratives of “Golden State.
#21 |San Francisco Solano de Sonoma| 363 3rd St. West, Sonoma | 1823, last mission In Lompoc you can visit La Purisima Mission and see livestock grazing in the fields. Santa Barbara's mission includes an amazing aqueduct system still in place from the mission era, and at Soledad Mission...
The "conquest" of the environment was a central theme in the history of the valley. Colonization in the valley began with the construction of a sixty-mile aqueduct from the Colorado River in California through Mexico. Initially, Mexico held authority over water delivery until settlers persuaded ...
realized that water could flow from Owens Valley to Los Angeles via an aqueduct. The aqueduct construction was overlooked by William Mulholland and was finished in 1913. The water rights were acquired through political fighting and deceiving people. Z alley, into the aqueduct. Mono Lake's eco...
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...
According to the project’s website (no longer functional), the mining project would have relied entirely on desalinated seawater (brought to the site by a 40-km aqueduct), which would be continuously recycled, and would therefore have no impact on local aquifers. Zapal claimed that the mine...
The Banks Pumping Station, the first one in the CWP, pumps at a rate of 302 cm/s, enough to handle the output from three turbines at the Bonneville Dam. The California aqueduct has a capacity of 370 cm/s, close to the output from four Bonneville turbines. The pumping stations and the...
Los Angeles Aqueduct and Southern California/from The Water Seekers (1950), by Remi A. Nadeau The silencing by firing, a massive laying off of skilled workers across under the aegis a Department of Government Efficiency. The eery prerogative of a shadow government, apparently intended to silence...
[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...
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 ...