When Was the La River Concrete?
After a Terrible Flood in March 1938, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers Began Work to Lower the Riverbed, Widen the Channel, and Choke the Whole Thing in “A...
After a terrible flood in March 1938, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began work to lower the riverbed, widen the channel, and choke the whole thing in “a continuous trapezoidal concrete channel to carry the river from Elysian Park to Long Beach,” as described in The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible ...
Why did they concrete the LA River?
The river surged beyond its banks. ... The flood marked the end of the river being a river. Afterwards, the dam-building, river-righting men at the US Army Corps of Engineers began encasing the river in a deep concrete channel that would keep it from spilling out of its banks during future floods.
When was the LA River full?
Work continued over the next 20 years and the work along the full length of the river was complete by 1960. The capacity of the flood control channel for the Lower LA River was increased in the 1990's with the construction of additional levees.
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