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The earliest forms of French drains were simple ditches that were pitched from a high area to a lower one and filled with gravel. These may have been invented in France [3] but Henry Flagg French (1813–1885) of Concord, Massachusetts, a lawyer and Assistant U.S. Treasury Secretary described and popularized them [4] in Farm Drainage (1859). [5]
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William Mulholland (September 11, 1855 – July 22, 1935) was an Irish American self-taught civil engineer who was responsible for building the infrastructure to provide a water supply that allowed Los Angeles to grow into the largest city in California. As the head of a predecessor to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Mulholland ...
Compton Creek is a major tributary of the Los Angeles River in and surrounding Compton in Los Angeles County, California. The stream drains a watershed of 42.1 square miles (109 km 2). [2] and is the last major tributary to enter the Los Angeles River before it reaches the Pacific Ocean. The stream begins just east of South Main Street between ...
Dominguez Channel (Spanish: Canal de Domínguez) [1] is a 15.7-mile-long (25.3 km) [2] stream in southern Los Angeles County, California, in the center of the Dominguez Watershed of 133 square miles (340 km 2). [3] The watershed area is 96 percent developed and largely residential. Subsurface storm drain tributaries and open flood control ...
Pacific Design Center. The Pacific Design Center, or PDC, is a 1,600,000-square-foot (150,000 m 2) multi-use facility for the design community in West Hollywood, California. One of the buildings is often described as the Blue Whale because of its large size relative to surrounding buildings and its brilliant blue glass cladding.
Los Angeles County, California. Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles (Spanish: Condado de Los Ángeles), and sometimes abbreviated as L.A. County, is the most populous county in the United States, with 9,861,224 residents estimated in 2022. Its population is greater than that of 40 individual U.S. states.
Coyote Creek is a principal tributary of the San Gabriel River [3] in northwest Orange County and southeast Los Angeles County, California.It drains a land area of roughly 41.3 square miles (107 km 2) covering eight major cities, including Brea, Buena Park, Fullerton, Hawaiian Gardens, La Habra, Lakewood, La Palma, and Long Beach. [4]