What three major disasters were caused, at least in part, by Mulholland? What Ri
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What three major disasters were caused, at least in part, by Mulholland?
What River in California did Los Angeles completely use up first?
What major lake did Los Angeles completely use up first?
What valley was being bought up once the Owens River was being diverted to LA?
What was one of the main reasons Mulholland was pushed to divert the Owens River to LA?
What were the conditions like during the construction of the first aqueduct from The Owens Valley to LA?
What was Mulholland’s education level?
What were Mulholland’s thoughts on Yosemite?
In what year did the first reservoir break? What was its name? Describe the losses.
In what year did the second reservoir break? What was its name?
How far north was the third river LA acquired in 1966?
What lake did LA begin pumping from in 1970?
Where did dust storms occur? Why did they occur and was it at all harmful? How?
One often hears that “LA stole the Owens River from the ranchers in the Owens Valley”. After watching the video and reading about the LA Aqueduct, what’s your opinion on this statement? (answer with a couple of sentences or a short paragraph)
Why do you think that LA often has a bad reputation for taking Owens River water but one rarely hears about San Francisco taking water from the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park? (answer with a couple of sentences or a short paragraph)
Look up the current level of Mono Lake on the Mono Lake Committee website (www.monolake.org ). How does it compare to the level mandated by the California Water Board?
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What three major disasters were caused, at least in part, by Mulholland?
- Two vertical cracks of fifty eight feet west and east of the gates appeared in the dam and minor seepage began to flow from the abudments as no contraction joints were provided.
- Engineers inspected the cracks and leaked and judged them as normal.
- In 1927, One more fracture appeared in the western abudment and ran diagonally upwards and to the center of the section. Engineers inspected and judged another contraction cack and filled it with oakum and grouted.
- Changes in the designs and plans
- The science of gravity arch dams was at initial stages and the effects are not known.
What River in California did Los Angeles completely use up first?
- The owens river was diverted to Los angeles first
What major lake did Los Angeles completely use up first?
- Due to high consumption Mono lake waters also diverted. This erupted in the water wars.
What valley was being bought up once the Owens River was being diverted to LA?
- Owens Valley, Eastern california
What was one of the main reasons Mulholland was pushed to divert the Owens River to LA?
- Mulholland shared his vision that Los angeles will become bigger in 20th century. He shared his views with mayor. Fred Eaton, Mayor of Los Angeles ordered to divert water from Owens river to LA by construction of Aqueduct. Thsi waater rights were acquired throught political fighting. Mulholland was the Engineer who constructed the Aqueduct.
What were the conditions like during the construction of the first aqueduct from The Owens Valley to LA?
- Federick and Mulholland played major role in getting the water to LA. They purcased land from te farmers and farmers got more than enough monay at later stage. First it was argued as to be less money. The treaty formed as to be only the overflow water will be usedf for Los angeles use but the use of water incresed drastically that the waters in the river posed draught situations.
What was Mulholland’s education level?
- Purely self educated man. He has self education in geology and hydrology led to promotions.He began his career as zanjero a irrigation ditch cleaner in water works.
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