Explore the 1928 collapse of the St. Francis Dam and its aftermath, the second deadliest disaster in California history. American Experience | PBS "Flood in the Desert" airs tonight at 9 p.m. | Georgia Public Broadcasting
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The St Francis Dam disaster of 1928 is considered the worst American civil engineering disaster of the 20th century William Mulholland, of which Mulholland Drive is named after, hastily oversaw the project. He ignored geologists warnings to not build the dam due to unstable foundations and went a step further by opting to use cheaper materials to get the job done quicker. Why? Because LA needed more water and fast. But this dam construction came right after building the first ever long distance
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On this day in California history, tragedy struck. The St. Francis Dam was a concrete gravity dam located in San Francisquito Canyon in Los Angeles County built from 1924 to 1926 to serve Los Angeles's growing water needs. It catastrophically failed in 1928 due to a defective soil foundation, claiming the lives of at least 431 people. The collapse of the St. Francis Dam is considered to be one of the worst American civil engineering disasters of the 20th century and remains the second-greatest l
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Just before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam collapsed, sending billions of gallons of water toward sleeping people downstream. Watch FLOOD IN THE DESERT Tue May 3 at 9/8c on American Experience | PBS → pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/flood-desert | American Experience | PBS
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Just under 100 years, in 1928, LA County suffered a major natural disaster and catastrophic infrastructure failure, resulting in communities being wiped out and many lives lost. And yet, many people who live here, have never heard about the St. Francis Dam collapse. Have you? #history #southerncalifornia | PBS SoCal
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