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The Los Angeles Aqueduct Cascades

By Linda Caffee
Posted Oct 25th 2020 6:59AM

All of this has to do with getting water to Los Angeles from the mountains, without this water there would not be a city. The aqueduct was started in 1905 and has been expanded once. The aqueduct ruined the farming in the Owen Valley and still caused controversy over a hundred years later. The aqueduct was built between 1908 and 1913 at a cost of $23 million, that amount is staggering thinking of those years.

At one point the aqueduct employed over 6000 people in a time when jobs were hard to find. The aqueduct is 419 miles in length and consists of tunnels, canals, and pipes and is all gravity fed. What I found interesting is that this project was designed by William Mulholland, a self-taught civil engineer, and geologist.

The Cascades which we can see from I-5 was completed Nov. 5th, 1913, and was designated a historical landmark by California in 1958.

For us, it is interesting to see when the water is flowing and also when the slide is dry and we can see all of the steps. This time by the slide was dry and you can see the steps or water stops built into the slide that also helps to aerate the water.

There are lots and lots of spec’s as well as historical data to read about the aqueduct on Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Aqueduct

This site has great pictures and historical data of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.

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