Two breaks appeared in the Quail Canal about 50 feet apart just east of the intersection of California 138 and Interstate 5, forcing state engineers to shut off hydraulic gates and CHP to closing California 138 to traffic as a precaution. Photograph caption reads: "Engineers inspect hole in California Aqueduct that leaked 326 million gallons of water". Photograph dated: Jan. 18, 1984.; Note on back of photograph: Engineers and sightseers came out to look over the break in the Lower Quail Canal near Gorman. The dark part of the canal bed shows how high the water table was before the break.
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1 photographic print :b&w ;28 x 36 cm. Photographic prints
Aqueducts--California Floods--California, Southern Disasters--California, Southern California Aqueduct (Calif.) Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
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