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"Just before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam, a twenty-story-high concrete structure just fifty miles north of Los Angeles, suddenly collapsed, releasing a devastating flood that roared fifty-four miles to the Pacific Ocean, destroying everything in its path. It was a horrific catastrophe, yet one which today is virtually forgotten. With research gathered over more than two decades, award-winning writer and filmmaker Jon Wilkman revisits the deluge that claimed nearly five hundred lives. A key figure is William Mulholland, the self-taught engineer who created an unprecedented water system, allowing Los Angeles to become America's second-largest city, and who was also responsible for the design and construction of the St. Francis Dam. Driven by eyewitness accounts and combining urban history with a life-and-death drama and a technological detective story, Floodpath grippingly reanimates the reality behind L.A. noir fictions such as the classic film Chinatown. In an era of climate change, increasing demand on water resources, and a neglected American infrastructure, the tragedy of the St. Francis Dam has never been more relevant."--Jacket.
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Floodplains, Floods, Dam failures, History, Dams, Los angeles (calif.), history, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Civil / Dams & Reservoirs, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Water Supply, HISTORY / United States / State & Local / West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, UT, WY)Times
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Floodpath: The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th-Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles
Jan 16, 2018, Bloomsbury USA
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Floodpath: the deadliest man-made disaster of 20th-century America and the making of modern Los Angeles
2016, Bloomsbury Press
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-310) and index.
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