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The Mulholland Dam is a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power dam located in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California, east of the Hollywood Freeway.Designed with a storage capacity of 7,900 acre⋅ft (9,700,000 m 3) of water at a maximum depth of 183 feet (56 m), the dam forms the Hollywood Reservoir, which collects water from various aqueducts and impounds the creek of Weid Canyon.
The reservoir was created by the Mulholland Dam (built in 1924), designed by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power—then named the Bureau of Water Works and Supply—as part of the city's water storage and supply system. [2] [3] The Hollywood Reservoir has appeared in films such as Earthquake (1974).
Three lanes on both sides of the 101 Freeway are closed due to a water main break, jamming traffic in the Hollywood area.
Elsewhere in the Hollywood Hills, Fox 11 reported Monday morning that mud flows and tree branches were blocking portions of Beverly Glen Boulevard. The station also quoted a resident who said a ...
The St. Francis Dam, or the San Francisquito Dam, was a concrete gravity dam located in San Francisquito Canyon in northern Los Angeles County, California, United States, that was built between 1924 and 1926.
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The city of Hollywood issued a boil water advisory on Tuesday morning after a water main burst and flooded a portion of State Road A1A. Customers along A1A from Sherman Street north, including all ...
The Hollywood attraction opened in March 1989 as part of the Studio Tour tram ride. The tram enters a sound stage, the interior designed to look like a San Francisco underground BART station, whereupon a two-and-a-half-minute simulation of an 8.3 earthquake takes place, featuring a gas truck falling into the station, a runaway train and a flood.