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Article: LA's river of concrete.(Features)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- July 15, 2009
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Byline: Compiled by Charles Legge
QUESTION Does the Los Angeles river ever have water in it?
THE Los Angeles River is the large concrete ditch which cuts through Los Angeles from the Sepulveda Basin to Long Beach, passing by Griffith Park, Downtown, and North Hollywood. Its headwaters are in the Santa Susana Mountains, San Gabriel Mountains and Santa Monica Mountains.
The river was once a free-flowing alluvial river running across the flood plain now occupied by Los Angeles, Long Beach and various other southern Californian towns.
Its path was unstable and it would frequently change course over relatively short periods of time.