The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power is struggling to maintain the city's Eastern Sierra aqueduct amid continued flooding from snowmelt.
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 eastern Sierra Nevada.
It was also an indication of just how difficult it would be to defend the waterway against torrential runoff from a winter of near record snowpack. For weeks, DWP crews had been using heavy equipment and other means to control the anticipated spring runoff, but even longtime aqueduct workers were shocked by the suddenness of the break.
Water from the Lower Owens River Project floods part of State Route 136 near Lone Pine, Calif., on Wednesday. The lake, which was once navigated by steamboats, had evaporated into dusty salt flats after the aqueduct was completed in 1913. In recent years, the DWP has spent $2.5 billion on projects designed to prevent the lakebed’s health-damaging particulate matter from becoming airborne.
Looking ahead, he said, DWP inspectors will be stepping up daily patrols of its aqueduct systems and dams in Owens Valley. By the early 1920s, tensions seethed in the area over the city’s continuing acquisitions. Over a three-year period, the aqueduct was dynamited more than a dozen times.
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