Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds. View of a ten-foot-wide outlet tunnel excavated into the hillside at the Devil's Gate Dam. An automobile is parked just inside the tunnel and three men wearing suits stand in front of the tunnel. Equipment with a cable spool [?] is on the left, with a ladder propped against a concrete wall beyond. 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. Text from negative sleeve: Devil's Gate Dam
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Image
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b&w nitrate negative
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uclamss_1429_2021 ark:/21198/zz002dcxnv
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Subject
Tunnels--California--La Cañada Flintridge Devil's Gate Dam (Calif.)
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