Bureau of Reclamation Historic Dams and Water Projects Managing Water in the...
What you see is not what you get at Parker Dam, known as “the deepest dam in the world.” Engineers, digging for bedrock on which to build, had to excavate so far beneath the bed of the Colorado River...
View ArticleA Man, A Dam and a Disaster: Mulhollnad and the St. Francis Dam
St. Francis Dam was built by the City of Los Angeles – Bureau of Water Works and Supply in 1925-26 as a curved concrete gravity dam, approximately 200 feet high in San Francisquito Canyon, about 5...
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