And on the city’s third annual Tap Water Day on Saturday, officials hailed the reason for its ultra goodness: the Los Angeles Aqueduct Filtration Plant in Sylmar, now celebrating its 30th ...

Scattergood, a former New Jersey farmboy and the “father of municipal power” in Los Angeles, would supply the power. He first built hydroelectric plants to help build the aqueduct, according ...

There are also plans to implement direct potable reuse at the Los Angeles Aqueduct Filtration Plant in the San Fernando Valley, which currently cleans water siphoned from the Owens Valley and Mono ...

One hundred years after its opening, the Los Angeles Aqueduct continues to cast a long ... When a company set up a plant to extract valuable chemicals in the dry bed of Owens Lake, the city ...

The aqueduct allowed for commerce ... He was living in a construction camp next to Los Angeles Water Bureau Power Plant #1, just a few minutes’ ride ahead, and there was no hurry.

Access to water played a critical role in the development of Los Angeles into one of the country ... Several lengthy articles about the aqueduct’s construction published in Engineering News ...

The aqueduct turns 100 this fall and the Los Angeles Aqueduct Centennial Garden will open in October with new "landscaping and plants, walking paths, park benches and educational signage," plus a ...

The pipeline that brings water out of California's Owens Valley to metropolitan Los Angeles turns 100 this month. The water wars it has spawned... How An Aqueduct Turned Los Angeles Into A 'Garden ...

The aqueduct allowed for commerce ... He was living in a construction camp next to Los Angeles Water Bureau Power Plant #1, just a few minutes’ ride ahead, and there was no hurry.

Trenton Guinta, left, and Bert Mantilla Jr. work at the filtration plant at the Water Replenishment District's facility at Albert Robles Center in Pico Rivera. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) ...

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