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Los Angeles River at Griffith Park, c. 1898–1910. Until the opening of the Los Angeles Aqueduct in 1913, the Los Angeles River was the main water source for the Los Angeles Basin. The river ran dry during the summers and flooded during winter months.
Los Angeles County has five major drainage basins, or watersheds: Santa Clara River, Ballona Creek, Dominguez Channel, Los Angeles River, and San Gabriel River. Before the formation of the basin, the area that encompasses the Los Angeles basin began above ground.
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.
Melanie Winter has long advocated for change along the L.A. River. As she undergoes cancer treatment, she remains focused on healing L.A.'s relationship to water.
In 1930, Los Angeles voters passed a third US$38.8 million bond to buy land in the Mono Basin and fund the Mono Basin extension. [28] The 105 mi (169 km) extension diverted flows from Rush Creek , Lee Vining Creek , Walker Creek, and Parker Creek that would have flowed into Mono Lake .
The Los Angeles flood of 1938 was one of the largest floods in the history of Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside Counties in southern California.The flood was caused by two Pacific storms that swept across the Los Angeles Basin in February-March 1938 and generated almost one year's worth of precipitation in just a few days.
The Los Angeles River flows through a largely urban landscape, carrying polluted runoff all the way to the ocean. (Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) The same urban runoff polluting the ocean ...
The river starts in the Simi Hills and Santa Monica and Santa Susana Mountains, enters a concrete channel and flows through the San Fernando Valley, is joined by tributaries from the San Gabriel Mountains, passes eastern Downtown Los Angeles, and flows through the Los Angeles Basin plain to its mouth at the sea in Long Beach