California’s big, storied past gets a nuanced, superbly researched retelling in one volume
Michael Hiltzik tells California's story with a journalist’s reluctance to take anything at face value and a distrust of ...
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A century after Owens Valley aqueduct protest, event marks tense time in L.A. water history
Their scheme laid the groundwork for the construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, which in 1913 began sending the valley’s water to the growing city 233 miles away. Residents were so enraged in ...
Santa Rosa Press Democrat14d
Another casualty of a bone-dry winter: Los Angeles won’t take less water from Mono Lake
LA had planned to take substantially less from the iconic Eastern Sierra lake this winter. The decision is a blow to conservationists who have been trying to restore the lake for decades.
Los Angeles Magazine10y
CityDig: This 1938 Map Details Every Dramatic Stretch of the 242-Mile-Long Colorado River Aqueduct
As was the case with the Los Angeles Aqueduct (completed in 1913), every inch of route was battled over in courts (and in the papers). In 1928, the Metropolitan Water District was formed for the ...
Los Angeles Magazine11y
Bottoms Up! NHM Throws the L.A. Aqueduct a 100th Birthday
Today and tomorrow, you can get another. Designed by William Mulholland, the Los Angeles Aqueduct is considered one of the greatest engineering feats of the early twentieth century. The aqueduct ...
The New York Times28d
How Los Angeles Dreams Became Kindling
Image The Los Angeles aqueduct near Sylmar. One of my neighbors, Timothy Dundon, known by his alter ego, Zeke the Sheik, had put the tragedy to rhyme. A tall man with a long gray beard ...
Victorville Daily Press on MSN4mon
Hesperia’s aqueduct bridge at Ranchero Road to be demolished, replaced. Lengthy road closure
The Ranchero Road aqueduct bridge was constructed in 1969 ... Daily Press reporter Rene Ray De La Cruz may be reached at ...
Townhall16d
California Up in Smoke, Thanks to Liberals
The first route is the Los Angeles Aqueduct built by the great William Mulholland in the 1900s, which brings water from the Owens River valley on the east side of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
LAist14d
Another casualty of a bone-dry winter: LA won’t take less water from Mono Lake
L.A. had planned to take substantially less from the iconic Eastern Sierra lake this winter. The decision is a blow to ...