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Los Angeles River 

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Resource ID

657

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Keywords

1938, Los Angeles River, Water, Engineering, Construction, Infrastructure, Labor, Nature

Date

19 February 14

Credit

UCLA - Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives

theme

nature

order

7

curated

1

Caption

In the 1930s when the city was no longer reliant on the river for water and more catastrophic flooding occurred, the river was redefined as a flood control channel for the efficient shuttling of storm water out to the ocean.

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