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Sharp sand, also known as grit sand or river sand and as builders' sand, concrete sand, or ASTM C33 when medium or coarse grain, is a gritty sand used in concrete and potting soil mixes or to loosen clay soil [1] as well as for building projects. It is not cleaned or smoothed to the extent recreational play sand is. It is useful for drainage. [2]
Looking north across the reservoir when filled with water. Photo taken before 1936. Constructed from 1910 to 1912, the 72,750 cu ft (2,060 m 3) lake with a surface elevation of approximately 1,514 feet (461 m) above sea level regulated the flow of water from the irregular flow discharged from the power plants in San Francisquito Canyon.
Manhattan Beach is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, United States, on the Pacific coast south of El Segundo, west of Hawthorne and Redondo Beach, and north of Hermosa Beach. As of the 2020 census , the population was 35,506.
The Alvarado (now Newark, CA) plant was the first sugar beet factory in the country. A state mining report in 1906 lists it as the El Dorado Sugar Company Quarry, located in Section 18 of Township 7 S, Range 2 W. That location is approximately 1.8 miles west of the end of Stevens Creek Blvd.
Hermosa Beach (Hermosa, Spanish for "Beautiful") [7] [8] is a beachfront city in Los Angeles County in the U.S. state of California, United States. Its population was 19,728 at the 2020 U.S. Census. The city is located in the South Bay region of the Greater Los Angeles area; it is one of the three Beach Cities.
Green Valley is a census-designated place [4] in the Sierra Pelona Mountains, in Los Angeles County, California. [2] It lies at an elevation of 2936 feet (895 m). [2] The population was 1,027 at the 2010 census.
The addition of sand was from the harbor dredging. [2] As a result of the addition of sand, the expansive outer beach of Cabrillo was created. Cabrillo Beach opened in 1928, and residents of San Pedro, Wilmington, and Los Angeles flooded to it to enjoy the new Southern California beach.
Location of the Wilmington Oil Field within the Los Angeles Basin. Oil fields are shown in light violet. Terminal Island drilling and production operations in the 1940s. THUMS oil island White, 2010. The Wilmington Oil Field is a prolific petroleum field in Los Angeles County in southern California in the United States.