OLANCHA, Calif. — For more than 100 years, the Los Angeles Aqueduct has endured earthquakes, flash floods and dozens of bomb attacks as it wends and weaves through the canyons and deserts of the ...

OLANCHA, Calif. — More than a month after heavy storms eroded a section of the Los Angeles Aqueduct, work crews are still scrambling to complete repairs and shore up flood defenses in the face ...

The history of the Los Angeles Aqueduct is a tale of greed, political maneuvering, and deception that shaped the growth of one of America’s largest cities. From 1900 to 1930, Los Angeles underwent a ...

Some residents in the San Fernando Valley have reported an “earthy odor” coming from their drinking water, but officials say ...

The aqueduct follows a 233-mile route southward ... The failure of a pressure-tunnel siphon in Sand Canyon 150 miles north of Los Angeles during a test phase was the project’s greatest challenge.

He is LA’s first water king, the man who brought much-needed Sierra snowmelt to the city by completing the Los Angeles Aqueduct. Finished in 1913, the 233-mile-long aqueduct runs from the Owens ...

Geoff McQuilkin, Mono Lake Committee Adam Perez, DWP’s Los Angeles Aqueduct manager, said the rainless fall, which has continued in an alarming winter dry spell, factored heavily into the ...

Little remained in spring to feed the Owens River and the aqueduct that had made Los Angeles an empire built on water. (By 1924, the aqueduct would deliver just half of what it had the year before.) ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

It only took five years (1908-1913) to build the 233-mile project from the Owens River to Los Angeles. When completed, the aqueduct was considered an engineering triumph second only to the Panama ...

Image The Los Angeles aqueduct near Sylmar. One of my neighbors, Timothy Dundon, known by his alter ego, Zeke the Sheik, had put the tragedy to rhyme. A tall man with a long gray beard ...