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March 12 of that same year, the St. Francis Dam ... map). Los Angeles received the first “soft and filtered water” from the CRA on June 20, 1941, but Pasadenans found the taste of Colorado ...
Western states began divvying up the Colorado’s water, building dams and diverting the flow hundreds of miles, to Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix and other fast-growing cities. The river now ...
Prepared under the Kinkaid Act and submitted to Congress, the report recommended construction of a high dam on the Colorado River at or near Boulder Canyon. The report also suggested that the ...