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The Alamitos Barrier Project is one of the three hydraulic barriers in Los Angeles County. It was created mainly to protect groundwater supplies from seawater intrusion. It is currently operated under Los Angeles County Flood Control District and the Orange County Water District. Other joint committees include the Water Replenishment District ...
Los Angeles County public health authorities are warning residents to avoid the waters of some beaches this Memorial Day weekend after testing turned up bacterial levels that exceed state standards.
2022–2023 California floods. Periods of heavy rainfall caused by multiple atmospheric rivers in California between December 31, 2022, and March 25, 2023, resulted in floods that affected parts of Southern California, the California Central Coast, Northern California and Nevada. [3][4] The flooding resulted in property damage [5][6][7] and at ...
Flood control structures spared parts of Los Angeles County from destruction, while Orange and Riverside Counties experienced more damage. [1] The flood of 1938 is considered a 50-year flood. [2] It caused $78 million of damage ($1.69 billion in 2023 dollars), [2] making it one of the costliest natural disasters in Los Angeles' history. [3]
In Los Angeles County, residents should avoid the ocean at several beaches because their bacterial levels exceeded health standards when they were last tested, according to the L.A. County ...
All lanes of Interstate 5 were flooded in San Fernando in Los Angeles County as of late Sunday evening. A flash flood warning in place for western and central Los Angeles County covers more than 2 ...
St. Francis Dam. 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. The dam failed catastrophically in 1928, killing at least 431 people in the subsequent flood, [2][3] in what is ...
UPDATED, 5:49 PM: The wild weather in Los Angeles has forced the cancellation of the red carpet for tonight’s portion of the NAACP Image Awards ceremony. The event’s dinner at LA Live downtown ...