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Spill zone7/7/2023 ![]() The terror that what happened in San Francisquito Canyon would happen again, this time in Hollywood, would consume citizens of the famous neighborhood. It stood 200 feet high and 1,000 feet wide-and its design mirrored St. There stood the Mulholland Dam, now commonly known as the Hollywood Reservoir or Lake Hollywood. Harnischfeger, along with his son, girlfriend, and more than 400 others, was swept to his death as a wall of water roughly 100 feet tall coursed through the Santa Clarita Valley before spilling into the ocean, south of Ventura.Īs news of the tragedy reached Hollywood, residents looked up and shuddered. ![]() Less than 12 hours later, the dam-which held a year’s supply of water for Los Angeles-gave out. Van Norman, examined the leak, proclaimed it safe, and went back to Los Angeles. Dam keeper Tony Harnischfeger was concerned about a muddy leak he had discovered in the curved concrete structure. Francis Dam in San Francisquito Canyon, near present-day Valencia. On March 12, 1928, William Mulholland, Los Angeles demigod and chief engineer of the Bureau of Water and Supply, was called out to the imposing St. But the most devastating flood Los Angeles County has ever seen was not caused by a rainstorm. ![]() In this city of sunny skies and low humidity, a bit of rain can push LA’s infrastructure to the breaking point. ![]()
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