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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 and surrounding neighborhood lie east of the Hollywood Freeway and are overlooked, from a distance, by the Hollywood Sign. [1] 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 ...
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 ...
The two-day rainfall tally is expected to break the top five in history, he said, pointing out that the heaviest rain fell late Sunday and early Monday. ... Hollywood Reservoir: 6.61 inches ...
Baldwin Hills Reservoir after 1963 failure, view south. The gash through the dam corresponds to the alignment of a fault. The Baldwin Hills Dam disaster occurred on December 14, 1963 (60 years ago) () in the Baldwin Hills neighborhood of South Los Angeles, when the dam containing the Baldwin Hills Reservoir suffered a catastrophic failure and flooded the residential neighborhoods surrounding it.
The resulting St. Francis Dam was completed in 1926 and created a reservoir capacity of 38,000 acre-feet (47,000,000 m 3). On March 12, 1928, the dam catastrophically failed, sending a 100-foot high (30 m) wall of water down the canyon, ultimately reaching the Pacific Ocean near Ventura and Oxnard, and killing at least 431 people.
Pacoima Reservoir: Pacoima Dam: Pacoima Creek: Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Department of Public Works: 1929: Variable radius arch: 365: 111: 3,777: 4,659 Palm Canyon Dam Reservoir: Palm Canyon Dam [10] Riverside: Santa Rosa Band of Cahuilla Indians: none (Palo Verde Valley Irrigation District) Palo Verde Diversion Dam: Colorado River: Riverside
Chatsworth Reservoir: 3.02 inches. Hansen Dam: 2.29 inches. San Gabriel Valley. Morris Dam: 5.76 inches ... Broadway 2024: See which Hollywood stars and new productions will hit New York. Finance.