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According to the United States Census Bureau the city has a total area of 106.2 square miles (275 km 2), of which, 106.0 square miles (275 km 2) of it is land and 0.3 square miles (0.78 km 2) of it is water (including man-made Lake Palmdale, the most visible and scenic part of the municipal water supply system). The total area is 0.24% water.
In 1977, the County Engineer Department moved to the corner of 5th Street and Vermont Ave., Los Angeles until the merge of the three departments. At that time the department was called the Department of County Engineer-Facilities. In 1988, the department issued a demolition permit to tear down the historic Golden Gate Theater in East Los Angeles.
Dry Town Water Park first opened in 2006 and is operated by the city of Palmdale, California. It is located at 3850 East Avenue S, on the grounds of the Palmdale Oasis Park & Recreation Center in the southeast portion of the city. [2] The park is open each year from the Memorial Day weekend in May through Labor Day in September.
It is a cooperative of fourteen cities, eleven municipal water districts, and one county water authority, that provides water to 19 million people in a 5,200-square-mile (13,000 km 2) service area. It was created by an act of the California State Legislature in 1928, primarily to build and operate the Colorado River Aqueduct .
Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department investigators have begun searching the Antelope Valley Landfill for the remains of an infant who disappeared in Palmdale earlier this month, law enforcement ...
The dam and Little Rock Reservoir are owned by the Palmdale Water District and Littlerock Creek Irrigation District and are used for agricultural and municipal water supply and flood control. [ 3 ] The dam is 124 ft (38 m) high from foundation to crest and spans 576 ft (176 m) across the canyon, forming a reservoir with a capacity of 3,700 acre ...
Lake Palmdale is regularly stocked of fish and has a small pier-like dock that extends about .25 miles (0.4 km) into the lake from which members of the Palmdale Fin & Feather Club may use to fish from or take a small boat onto the lake. There are also many other small docks that run along the southwestern coast of the lake, also for use by the ...
Settlers were drawn to the area because water was more plentiful than in the drier Antelope Valley. In 1907 William Mulholland, superintendent of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, started work on the Elizabeth Lake Tunnel for transporting water in the Los Angeles Aqueduct from Owens Valley to Los Angeles. Less than a half a mile ...