Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. The Devil's Gate Dam was the first flood control dam constructed in Los Angeles County. Designed by the flood engineers from the Los Angeles County Flood Control District and completed in 1920 Bent Brothers company, it formed the Hahamongna flood basin. The dam is located in La Cañada Flintridge at Devil's Gorge, the narrowest point on the Arroyo Seco. The Arroyo Seco is a seasonal river and watershed that begins at Red Box Saddle near Mount Wilson in the San Gabriel Mountains and ends at the confluence with the Los Angeles River near Elysian Park, north of Downtown Los Angeles View of the downstream face of the Devil's Gate Dam from a road on the west side of the dam. A road connecting La Cañada and Pasadena spans the top of the dam. The top of a car parked on the dam is visible, 5 men are standing near the car next to the concrete wall along the edge of the dam roadway and 3 other men are visible on the dam roadway farther on the right. Text from negative sleeve: Devil's Gate Dam
Type
image
Format
b&w nitrate negative
Identifier
uclamss_1429_2020 ark:/21198/zz002dcxmb
Language
No linguistic content
Subject
Dams--California--La Cañada Flintridge Devil's Gate Dam (Calif.)
Source
Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection OpenUCLA Collections
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