The St. Francis Dam Disaster: Revisited

Name: The St. Francis Dam Disaster: Revisited
Brand: Historical Society of Southern California Los Angeles,
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paperback – January 1, 1995

by Nunis, Doyce

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ISBN-13: 9780914421139 ISBN-10: 0914421131

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Historical Society of Southern California Los Angeles,

Binding

paperback

Published

January 1, 1995

Weight

0.3 lbs

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1.50×15.20×22.60 cm

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The St. Francis Dam Disaster: Revisited by Nunis, Doyce. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780914421139.

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 miles northeast of what is now Magic Mountain, California. The stated purpose of the dam was to provide an additional 38,000 acre-feet of storage for Los Angeles-Owens River Aqueduct water in close proximity to Los Angeles. The Dam failed catastrophically upon its first full filling, near midnight on March 12/13. 1928. killing at least 450 people in the San Francisquito and Santa Clara River valleys. It was the greatest American civil engineering failure in the twentieth century.