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The term "triple point" was coined in 1873 by James Thomson, brother of Lord Kelvin. [2] The triple points of several substances are used to define points in the ITS-90 international temperature scale, ranging from the triple point of hydrogen (13.8033 K) to the triple point of water (273.16 K, 0.01 °C, or 32.018 °F).
The Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant is a sewage treatment plant in southwest Los Angeles, California, next to Dockweiler State Beach on Santa Monica Bay. The plant is the largest sewage treatment facility in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and one of the largest plants in the world. Hyperion is operated by the City of Los Angeles, Department ...
The Tongva Sacred Springs are a group of springs located on the campus of University High School in Los Angeles, California. [1] The springs, called Koruuvanga [2] by the native Gabrieleno Tongva people, were used as a source of natural fresh water by the Tongva people since at least the 5th century BC and continue to produce 22,000–25,000 US gallons (83,000–95,000 L) of water a day. [3]
The former governor of Alaska, Walter J. Hickel, proposed a water pipeline from his state to California in 1991, [2] which was quickly criticized for being too expensive, environmentally problematic, and "too far-out". [3] The Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) published a report in 1992 considering an implementation of the plan using a ...
The opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct provided the city with four times as much water as it required, and the offer of water service became a powerful lure for neighboring communities. The city, saddled with a large bond and excess water, locked in customers through annexation by refusing to supply other communities.
The Los Angeles Basin is a sedimentary basin located in Southern California, in a region known as the Peninsular Ranges. The basin is also connected to an anomalous group of east-west trending chains of mountains collectively known as the Transverse Ranges. The present basin is a coastal lowland area, whose floor is marked by elongate low ...
Dominguez Channel (Spanish: Canal de Domínguez) [ 1 ] is a 15.7-mile-long (25.3 km) [ 2 ] stream in southern Los Angeles County, California, in the center of the Dominguez Watershed of 133 square miles (340 km 2). [ 3 ] The watershed area is 96 percent developed and largely residential. Subsurface storm drain tributaries and open flood control ...
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.