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CANAL SECTION IN IRON MOUNTAIN VICINITY. - Colorado River Aqueduct, From Colorado River to Lake Mathews, Parker Dam, San Bernardino County, CA
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Lowe, Jet

Related names:

Weymouth, Frank E
Hinds, Julian
Whitsett, W P
Mulholland, William
Metropolitan Water District of South California
Los Angeles Bureau of Water Works and Supply
Title
CANAL SECTION IN IRON MOUNTAIN VICINITY. - Colorado River Aqueduct, From Colorado River to Lake Mathews, Parker Dam, San Bernardino County, CA
Depicted place California; San Bernardino County; Parker Dam
Date 1998
date QS:P571,+1998-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER CAL,36-PARD.V,1-8
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  • Significance: The Colorado River Aqueduct pumps water from the Colorado River through, over, and across mountains and desert in a 242-mile-long march to the coastal plain of Southern California. When completed, it was one of the longest water-conveyance facilities in the world. The aqueduct includes power lines, tunnels, siphons, covered conduits, open canals, dams, reservoirs, and five pumping plants, involving ingenious engineering solutions and newly-introduced construction equipment. The project also employed over 35,000 people during its eight-year span and as many as 10,000 at one time, making it southern California's single-largest work opportunity during the Great Depression. In 1995, the Colorado River Aqueduct was named a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers. Today, it is the major water supply for urban and suburban southern California.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N732
  • Survey number: HAER CA-226
  • Building/structure dates: 1941 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1952 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1965 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ca2472.photos.382970p
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Object location34° 17′ 13.99″ N, 114° 08′ 31.99″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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