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California water wars: A century of wrangling over Los Angeles’s waterJust before midnight on March 7, 1928, the St Francis Dam, located roughly 80km (50 miles) inland of Los Angeles, collapsed.
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The disgraceful end of California's water kingWilliam Mulholland and the St. Francis Dam Disaster” by Norris Hundley Jr. and Donald C. Jackson. Escaping unhappy family circumstances, at 15 he joined the British Merchant Navy and sailed for ...
In 1922, William Mulholland began building the St. Francis Dam to create a reservoir for the Los Angeles–Owens River aqueduct. To meet the growing water needs of Los Angeles, he decided to ...
A colossal engineering failure, the dam was built by William Mulholland, who had ensured the growth of Los Angeles by bringing water to the city via aqueduct.
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