“Do not go to Inyo County,” William Mulholland – who would one day direct the disastrous St Francis Dam project as part of ...

Without their efforts, the aqueduct would not have been built; yet the project would prove to be each man’s undoing. An Irish immigrant, Mulholland was blunt-spoken, almost six feet tall with ...

In the end, the Colorado River Aqueduct supplied water to 14 cities, 12 municipal water districts, and some 130 municipalities. William Mulholland died about halfway through construction in 1935 ...

In 1922, William Mulholland began building the St. Francis Dam to create a reservoir for the Los Angeles–Owens River aqueduct. To meet the growing water needs of Los Angeles, he decided to ...

A colossal engineering failure, the dam was built by William Mulholland, who had ensured the growth of Los Angeles by bringing water to the city via aqueduct.