St. Francis Dam in San Francisquito Canyon near Saugus was completed in 1926 and failed in 1928. It was part of the Owens Valley Aqueduct System. This post-failure photograph shows the main part of the dam in the background of the picture, with a large chunk of dam having washed down into the area seen in the foreground here.
St. Francis Dam Failure, California, 1928 Dam failures--California--Los Angeles County Floods--California--Santa Clara River Saint Francis Dam (Calif.)
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