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Headquarters. 700 North Alameda Street, Los Angeles, California. 34°3′17″N 118°14′11″W / 34.05472°N 118.23639°W / 34.05472; -118.23639. Water district executive. Adel Hagekhalil, General Manager. Website. www.mwdh2o.com. The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California is a regional wholesaler and the largest ...
William Mulholland (September 11, 1855 – July 22, 1935) was an Irish American self-taught civil engineer who was responsible for building the infrastructure to provide a water supply that allowed Los Angeles to grow into the largest city in California. As the head of a predecessor to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, Mulholland ...
Catchment area. 82 sq mi (210 km 2) Big Tujunga Dam is a 244-foot-high (74 m) concrete arch dam in Los Angeles County, California, spanning Big Tujunga Canyon northeast of Sunland, in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. Completed in 1931, it provides flood control and groundwater recharge for the San Fernando Valley.
California water officials have estimated that the total costs of drinking water solutions for communities statewide amount to $11.5 billion over the next five years.
Container gardening in Southern California, a class taught by master gardener Yvonne Savio at 1 p.m. at the Wilshire branch of the Los Angeles Public Library, 149 N. St. Andrews Place in Koreatown ...
Hyperion sewage treatment plant. Coordinates: 33°55′30″N 118°25′47″W. The Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant from the air. Detail of one of the plant buildings designed by Anthony J Lumsden, FAIA. The Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant is a sewage treatment plant in southwest Los Angeles, California, next to Dockweiler State Beach on ...
183 feet (56 m) Water volume. 2.5 billion US gallons (9,500,000 m 3) Hollywood Reservoir (also known as Lake Hollywood) is a reservoir located in the Hollywood Hills, situated in the Santa Monica Mountains and north of the Hollywood neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It is maintained by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
The California State Water Project, commonly known as the SWP, is a state water management project in the U.S. state of California under the supervision of the California Department of Water Resources. The SWP is one of the largest public water and power utilities in the world, providing drinking water for more than 27 million people and ...