The Mulholland Dam is a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power dam located in the Hollywood Hills of Los Angeles, California, east of the Hollywood Freeway. Designed with a storage capacity of 7,900 acre⋅ft (9,700,000 m 3 ) of water at a maximum depth of 183 feet (56 m), the dam forms the Hollywood Reservoir , which collects water from ...

On March 12, 1928, William Mulholland, Los Angeles demigod and chief engineer of the Bureau of Water and Supply, was called out to the imposing St. Francis Dam in San Francisquito Canyon, near...

The Mulholland Dam is a concrete-arched gravity dam constructed between August 1923 and December 1924. Built under the supervision of William Mulholland, chief engineer for the City's Bureau of Water Works and Supply (later DWP), the dam’s sole purpose was creating a new water reservoir for the City of Los Angeles.

2017年5月19日 · Earthmovers slowly piled tons and tons of earth atop its downstream face, trees took root, and the Mulholland Dam disappeared into the Hollywood Hills. Circa 1920s postcard of the Hollywood Reservoir, showing the exposed concrete face of the Mulholland Dam, courtesy of the California State Library.

William Mulholland (September 11, 1855 – July 22, 1935) was an Irish American self-taught civil engineer who was responsible for building the infrastructure to provide a water supply that allowed Los Angeles to grow into the largest city in California.

2024年9月14日 · William Mulholland built the Los Angeles aqueduct that brought water from the Owens Valley to Southern California before a dam tragedy ended his career.

2025年3月5日 · On March 12-13, 1928, the St. Francis Dam north of Santa Clarita suffered a catastrophic failure which resulted in the deaths of an estimated 430 people. One of the consequences of the disaster was a reassessment of the Mulholland Dam, which holds Hollywood Reservoir aka Lake Hollywood.

2016年5月14日 · Considered the worst civil engineering failure in the history of California and the state's second-worst disaster, in terms of lives lost, the collapse of the dam ended the storied career of Mulholland, the man who earlier had masterminded construction …

September 1904, William Mulholland and Fred Eaton left Los Angeles for a trip by buckboard up the Newhall grade through the Santa Clara Valley and north along the edge of the Eastern Sierras to the edge of the soda filled Owens Lake and its source, the Owens River.

2025年3月5日 · The St. Francis Dam disaster occurred northwest of Los Angeles, California, on March 12, 1928. It remains one of the worst civil engineering failures in American history. The flood caused by the dam’s collapse killed hundreds and swept away thousands of …