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San Gabriel Valley (10 C, 105 P, 1 F) Pages in category "Valleys of Los Angeles County, California" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
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.
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.
The San Fernando Valley, [1] known locally as the Valley, [2] [3] is an urbanized valley in Los Angeles County, California. Situated northwards of the Los Angeles Basin , it comprises a large portion of Los Angeles , the incorporated cities of Burbank , Calabasas , Glendale , Hidden Hills and San Fernando , plus several unincorporated areas. [ 4 ]
The Valley Industry & Commerce Association (VICA) is a business group in the San Fernando Valley, California.It is the most powerful business group in the Valley. [1] [2]The San Fernando Valley, in Northwest Los Angeles County, is a diverse and thriving economy consisting of entertainment, manufacturing, retail, international trade, healthcare, tourism, aviation, academia, financial services ...
The Van Norman Dams, also known as the San Fernando Dams, were the terminus of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, supplying about 80 percent of Los Angeles' water, [5] until they were damaged in the 1971 San Fernando earthquake and were subsequently decommissioned due to the inherent instability of the site and their location directly above heavily populated areas.
Located within the San Fernando Valley, Valley Village has a higher degree of diurnal temperature variation than the nearby basin or coastal areas. According to the Köppen climate classification system , Valley Village has a hot-summer Mediterranean climate ( Csa ), with subtropical and semi-arid characteristics.
The field is on the southern slope of the Santa Susana Mountains, an east-west trending range dividing the San Fernando Valley on the south from the Santa Clarita Valley on the north-northeast. With some of its productive wells set at an elevation over 3,000 feet, it is one of the highest and most rugged oil fields in California. [ 3 ]