[20] The city was further expanded with the completion of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, which delivers water from Eastern California. 【参考译文】洛杉矶地区最初是土著通瓦人的居住地,后在1542年被胡安·罗德里格斯·卡布里略代表西班牙宣称拥有。这座城市由西班牙总督费利佩·德·内韦于1781年9月4日...
But oranges and people need water, and L.A. looked to the Owens Valley, some 200 miles away, to slake its thirst. After years of backroom deals, bribery and other shenanigans, superintendent William Mulholland opened theLos Angeles Aqueductin 1913 with the words, “There it is. Take it.”...
1913 - After a saga of cinematic proportions, the Los Angeles Aqueduct is completed, carrying water from the Owens Valley, about 230 miles north of the city. At the opening ceremony, engineer William Mulholland proclaims “There it is. Take it.” 1913 - LA's first children’s and family ...
Water flows through the Owens Valley in the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 2023. (Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times) An event this weekend focuses on the history of that resistance effort, and Los Angeles’ continued reliance on water from the Eastern Sierra. It’s a chapter of Californi...
Mulholland and Eaton planned to route the aqueduct from the Owens River straight into the San Fernando Valley, an arid region of land nearby the city. A syndicate of Los Angeles businessmen (including Harrison Gray Otis, publisher of The Los Angeles Times, and railroad magnates Moses Sherman, ...
100 Years of Water: Los Angeles Aqueduct, William Mulholland Helped Create Modern L.AThe former sailor, gold digger, Indian fighter and water-ditchtender unfurled a Stars and...Bartholomew, Dana
In the end, Mulholland and Los Angeles “won” and grew into the metropolis we know and love today. In thewords of Marty Adams, DWP water systems manager: “If the aqueduct had never been built, the city would never have grown larger than about 300,000 people.” ...
used hisLos Angeles Timesto promote development near the aqueduct’s outlet. By referendum of the residents, 170 square miles of the San Fernando Valley and the Palms district were added to the city in 1915, almost tripling its area, mostly towards the northwest. Over the next few decades, ...
Plant-scale tests were run in October 1987 and October 1988 to evaluate the ability of the 26.3-m3/s (600-mgd) Los Angeles Aqueduct Filtration Plant (LAAFP) to treat one of the source waters -- California State project water (SPW) -- used by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern ...
In writing “Chinatown,” with its plot revolving around a high-level water and real estate conspiracy, Towne was inspired by elements of the controversial history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct that brought water from the Owens Valley in the eastern Sierra Nevada down to L.A. earlier in the...