La's River of Concrete [Eire Region]

Daily MailJuly 15, 2009

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QUESTION Does the Los Angeles river ever have water in it?

THE Los Angeles River is the large concrete ditch which cuts through Los Angeles from the Sepulveda Basin to Long Beach, passing by Griffith Park, Downtown, and North Hollywood. Its headwaters are in the Santa Susana Mountains, San Gabriel Mountains and Santa Monica Mountains.

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La's River of Concrete [Eire Region]

The river was once a free-flowing alluvial river running across the flood plain now occupied by Los Angeles, Long Beach and various other southern Californian towns.

Its path was unstable and it would frequently change course over relatively short periods of time.

The unpredictable nature of the river meant the plain was susceptible to flooding and, as the area became increasingly populated in the 19th a...

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