Outlet tunnel at Devil's Gate Dam, La Cañada Flintridge

Item Overview

Title

Outlet tunnel at Devil's Gate Dam, La Cañada Flintridge

Date Created

[between 1920-1939]

Date

1920/1939

Publisher

Los Angeles Times

Language

No linguistic content

Collection

Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Notes

Description

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 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 four men wearing suits stand next to the tunnel.

Caption

Text from negative sleeve: Devil's Gate Dam

Physical Description

Extent

1 photograph

Medium

b&w nitrate negative

Keywords

Genre

news photographs
cellulose nitrate film

Location

La Cañada Flintridge (Calif.)

Longitude

34.185232

Latitude

-118.175909

Resource type

still image

Subjects

Dams--California--La Cañada Flintridge
Devil's Gate Dam (Calif.)
Tunnels--California--La Cañada Flintridge