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Exhuming California's St. Francis Dam Disaster


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Seven miles up San Francisquito Canyon in far northern Los Angeles County, at an unmarked spot on an abandoned county road, there’s a pile of rubble. Obscured by the cottonwoods and willows that cluster along trickling San Francisquito Creek, the site is indistinguishable from the surrounding shale and sandstone until you’re standing nearly on top of it. Further west, ragged concrete blocks the size of shipping containers lie scattered across the canyon floor. These are the remnants of greater Los Angeles’s deadliest day, obscured from public view by time, neglect, and painstaking effort. ....

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Remembering the March 1928 St. Francis Dam Disaster North of Los Angeles – NBC Los Angeles


March 1928: St. Francis Dam Disaster Sends Water on a Rampage Across Southern California
More than 450 people were killed in the March 1928 St. Francis Dam collapse, a civil engineering failure that unleashed an avalanche of water across Southern California
By Jonathan Lloyd
By Jonathan Lloyd
This article was originally published March 11, 2019.
In March 1928, the worst civil engineering failure in California history killed more than 450 people when a wall of water carved a path of staggering destruction from a canyon north of Los Angeles to the coast. 
Click here for historic photos of the St. Francis Dam and the aftermath of its collapse. ....

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