When Science Goes Wrong
“A hiker can walk for miles there and see no life beyond the circling hawks and an occasional rattlesnake. But he couldn’t fail to notice the immense, eroded blocks of concrete, some weighing 10,000 tons or more, that lie half-hidden in the chaparral like the decaying ruins of a long lost civilisation. These monoliths serve as memorials to the victims of America’s worst civil engineering disaster of the 20th century – the failure of the St. Francis Dam on March 12, 1928.
The dam was the brainchi...ld of William Mulholland, the famed water engineer whose projects made possible the explosive growth of Los Angeles during the early part of the 20th century. Born in Belfast in 1855, Mulholland arrived in Los Angeles at the age of 22 with little education and a few dollars in his pocket. He took employment as a ditch tender for the city’s water system, which was then dependent on the erratic local supply provided by the Los Angeles River. He quickly demonstrated an extraordinary aptitude for water engineering, and he rose through the ranks of the water company to become its superintendent.MoreLess
The dam was the brainchi...ld of William Mulholland, the famed water engineer whose projects made possible the explosive growth of Los Angeles during the early part of the 20th century. Born in Belfast in 1855, Mulholland arrived in Los Angeles at the age of 22 with little education and a few dollars in his pocket. He took employment as a ditch tender for the city’s water system, which was then dependent on the erratic local supply provided by the Los Angeles River. He quickly demonstrated an extraordinary aptitude for water engineering, and he rose through the ranks of the water company to become its superintendent.MoreLess
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