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Crimes of the Centuries Podcast: Mulholland's Deadly Dam Disaster | Grab Bag Collab | YouTubeToText
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On March 12th, 1928, the St. Francis Dam, a newly constructed 185 ft concrete structure in Los Angeles, catastrophically failed just after midnight, releasing 38,000 acre feet of water and causing widespread destruction.
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the phone rang just after midnight in
the home of the director of the Bureau
of Waterworks and supply for the city of
Los Angeles it was March 12th
1928 a rushed voice told the chief that
the St Francis dam was even now
collapsing ferociously into the canyon
below it the 185 ft curved concrete
Behemoth in the San Francis Canyon had
been in service for only 2 years it had
been built to hold back 38,000 acre feet
of water for the city's imminent use the
director knew that the water that had
been held back by the dam would now
never reach city tops but would drown a
lot of whatever lived between it and the
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