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The Arroyo Calabasas (left) and Bell Creek (right) join to form the Los Angeles River LA River near downtown LA during drought in 2014. The Los Angeles River's official beginning is at the confluence of two channelized streams – Bell Creek and Arroyo Calabasas – in the Canoga Park section of the city of Los Angeles, just east of California State Route 27 (Topanga Canyon Boulevard), at (the ...
An article last Monday about the Los Angeles River recounted its history and described the reporter's trip downriver in a kayak. In research for the article, the reporter consulted a 1999 book by Blake Gumprecht, "The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth."
The Sepulveda Dam is a dry dam constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to withhold winter flood waters along the Los Angeles River.Completed in 1941, at a cost of $6,650,561 (equivalent to $137,766,000 in 2023), it is located south of center in the San Fernando Valley, approximately eight miles (13 km) east of the river's source in the western end of the Valley, in Los Angeles, California.
River LA is a nonprofit working on the revitalization of the Los Angeles River.The organization, formerly known as the Los Angeles River Revitalization Corporation, was founded in 2009 by the City of LA to coordinate river policy as part of the Los Angeles River Revitalization Master Plan.
The river starts in the Simi Hills and Santa Monica and Santa Susana Mountains, enters a concrete channel and flows through the San Fernando Valley, is joined by tributaries from the San Gabriel Mountains, passes eastern Downtown Los Angeles, and flows through the Los Angeles Basin plain to its mouth at the sea in Long Beach
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.
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A drop of rain falling in the San Gabriel Mountains will reach the sea faster than an auto can drive. During today's rainstorms, the volume of the Los Angeles River at Long Beach can be as large as the Mississippi River at St. Louis. The drilling of wells and pumping of water from the San Fernando Valley aquifer dried up the river by the 1920s.