From the day the St. Francis Dam opened in 1926, it leaked. The folks in the farm towns downstream used to joke that they’d see you later “if the dam don’t break.” Built by William Mulholland, known as the father of Los Angeles’ municipal water system, the 1,300-foot span of...
due to reporting deadlines, the first reports of the disaster did not appear in most morning newspaper editions in Los Angeles and elsewhere in the country until March 14. Therefore, this March 14, 1928 edition of the Los Angeles Times represents the first report on the dam disaster....
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Fifty years ago, the Baldwin Hills Reservoir dam ruptured, sending 150 million gallons of Los Angeles drinking water roaring into homes and cars along nearby Cloverdale Avenue. Five people were killed, 65 hillside homes were torn apart and 210 other homes and apartments were damaged in an ...
LOS ANGELES (AP)— President Donald Trump on Thursday approved a disaster declaration for California to address damage from January storms that were part of the state's extremely wet winter. The action, in response to a request by Gov. Jerry Brown, makes federal funding available to state, lo...
Now a West Coast powerhouse, Los Angeles was originally inhabited by indigenous tribes and expanded with settlers from Spain, Mexico and then gold prospectors, land speculators, laborers, oil barons and those seeking fame in Hollywood.
was already searching for more water for the still-growing Los Angeles region, and was pushing for the building of an aqueduct and a dam on the mighty Colorado River. This ambitious idea would come to pass in 1939--four years after Mulholland's death--with the completion of Hoover Dam. ...
The determination of William Mulholland and Fred Eaton to bring faraway water to a parched population empowers the city of Los Angeles to ascend.
(Brian van der Brug/Los Angeles Times) On the Klamath River, thelargest dam removal projectin history is underway, and state officials tout the effort as one of various steps to remove barriers and “modernize infrastructure” for salmon migration. ...