Author: Los Angeles (Calif.). Department of Water and PowerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 7
Book Description
The 2nd Los Angeles Aqueduct
Author: Los Angeles (Calif.). Department of Water and PowerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Water-supply
Languages : en
Pages : 7
Book Description
Complete Report on Construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct
Author: Los Angeles (Calif.). Board of Public Service CommissionersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aqueducts
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Water to the Angels
Author: Les StandifordPublisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062251449
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 263
Book Description
The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created—William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct—a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one determined man who's vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today. In 1907, Irish immigrant William Mulholland conceived and built one of the greatest civil engineering feats in history: the aqueduct that carried water 223 miles from the Sierra Nevada mountains to Los Angeles—allowing this small, resource-challenged desert city to grow into a modern global metropolis. Drawing on new research, Les Standiford vividly captures the larger-then-life engineer and the breathtaking scope of his six-year, $23 million project that would transform a region, a state, and a nation at the dawn of its greatest century. With energy and colorful detail, Water to the Angels brings to life the personalities, politics, and power—including bribery, deception, force, and bicoastal financial warfare—behind this dramatic event. At a time when the importance of water is being recognized as never before—considered by many experts to be the essential resource of the twenty-first century—Water to the Angels brings into focus the vigor of a fabled era, the might of a larger than life individual, and the scale of a priceless construction project, and sheds critical light on a past that offers insights for our future. Water to the Angels includes 8 pages of photographs.
Water and Power
Author: William L. KahrlPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520907418
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
It is not the purpose of this work to propose a specific format for the settlement of the city's current difficulties with the valley, to resolve the environmental questions associated with Los Angeles's proposed groundwater pumping program, or to promote any cause associated with the developing situation in the Owens Valley. But by performing the essential historical task of separating what happened from what did not, and by distinguishing in this way the choices which have been made from those which have yet to be decided, it is my hope that this effort will help to establish that common basis for understanding which is essential for the debate over specific issues to proceed most effectively. This book, then, is scarcely the last word on the Owens Valley conflict: the final chapter, after all, has yet to be written. The story that has emerged here is at once very different and more troubling than the conventional treatments of the conflict as a simplistic political morality play. Any attempt to deal with so controversial a subject, however, is almost certain to spark controversy itself. For that reason, with the exception of a small collection of private letters, this work is constructed entirely from the published documents and other materials available to the general public, anchoring the narrative in sources the reader can consult to trace the line of my argument on any point with which he or she may disagree. In addition, the work as a whole has been reviewed for technical accuracy by officials of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, although the department is in no way responsible for the content of this study or the conclusions drawn from it.
Complete Report on Construction of the Los Angeles Aqueduct
Author: Points of Interest
Author: Los Angeles (Calif.). Department of Water and PowerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aqueducts
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Annual Report of the Bureau of the Los Angeles Aqueduct to the Board of Public Works
Author: Los Angeles (Calif.) Bureau of the Los Angeles AqueductPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Water from the Owens Valley to Supply the Second Los Angeles Aqueduct: Appendices [A-E
Author: The Second Los Angeles Aqueduct
Author: Los Angeles (Calif.). Department of Water and PowerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aqueducts
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Water from the Owens Valley to Supply the Second Los Angeles Aqueduct: Appendices
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description