Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Rock musician Frank Black makes several references to the St. Francis Dam disaster in his songs "St. Francis Dam Disaster" [103] and "Olé Mulholland." [citation needed] The 2014 young adult novel 100 Sideways Miles by Andrew A. Smith features the current site of the dam disaster as well as some discussion of the historical event. [104]
Between 1924 and 1926, the canyon was the site of the construction of the St. Francis Dam. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power began filling a reservoir in the San Francisquito Canyon in 1926. At 11:57 pm on March 12, 1928, the dam catastrophically failed, and the resulting flood took the lives of at least 431 people.
Hetch Hetchy Valley serves as the primary water source for the City and County of San Francisco and several surrounding municipalities in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. The dam and reservoir, combined with a series of aqueducts, tunnels, and hydroelectric plants as well as eight other storage dams, comprise a system known as the Hetch ...
The dam itself is located about 1,100 feet (340 m) east of the fault. The dam is owned and operated by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, and stores drinking water for the City of San Francisco. The current dam is 140 feet high with a crest length of 600 feet. It was the first mass concrete gravity dam built in the United States.
Heavy rain forced Game 6 of the 1962 World Series at San Francisco's Candlestick Park to be postponed from its originally scheduled date of October 11 to Monday, October 15. March 1964 – A powerful earthquake in Alaska produced a tsunami, devastating several North Coast towns and resulting in 14 deaths and an economic loss of $14 million in ...
Nelson, of the Golden State Salmon Assn., believes parts of the order are intended to move forward that dam-raising plan by attempting to override protections in state law for the McCloud River ...
The resulting flooding in the Central Valley and other low-lying areas forced over 120,000 people from their homes and caused over $2 billion in property damage alone. 48 out of California's 58 counties were declared disaster areas with many streamflow gauge stations in these areas recording return intervals of over 100 years. It would take ...
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us