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It would launch a system of statewide arteries from the Sacramento Delta to the Colorado River that spread life-giving waters across the semiarid Golden State. It would slake the thirst of a burgeoning Southern California pueblo while opening the floodgates for a modern Los Angeles - a metropolis of millions, a city of dreams, capital of the West and entertainment powerhouse of the world. It would herald Los Angeles’ greatest-ever civic feat - an epic steel and cement waterway from the far-off Owens Valley that took five years to blast through rock and carve through canyons and sizzling deserts by 100,000 men with mules, hand and power tools.

5, 1913, would hail more than an engineering triumph some said would rival only the Panama Canal. The dedication of the Los Angeles Aqueduct on Nov. “There it is,” proclaimed Mulholland in his native Irish brogue, terse words that would tumble down through history. And a sparkling torrent gushed down the curving cascade above Sylmar.

Behind him rose his engineering triumph - a 233-mile aqueduct from the High Sierra to Los Angeles bearing a river of liquid riches.Ĭannons boomed. The former sailor, gold digger, Indian fighter and water-ditch tender unfurled a “Stars and Stripes,” signaling toward a San Fernando Valley hillside to unleash a flood of riches upon Los Angeles.īefore water chief William Mulholland stood 40,000 Angelenos who’d come dressed to the nines from downtown to the dusty Valley a century ago to witness a water-poor city change course.

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