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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 (1926–1928) - failed March 12, 1928 San Clemente Dam - intentionally removed in 2015-2016 because of environmental issues Van Norman Dams (1911–1971) - failed February 9, 1971, in 1971 San Fernando earthquake
Mud was already flowing across the Hollywood Hills, damaging homes and forcing residents to flee. In Studio City late Sunday, a debris flow sent mud and other objects flowing down the 11900 block ...
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.
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.
Hollywood police issued an alert urging people to avoid places close to the site of shooting at the popular beach town. “Please avoid the area of Johnson to Garfield Streets, as well as the ...
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.