Workers got a surprise while they were excavating the site of a - TopicsExpress



          

Workers got a surprise while they were excavating the site of a $100-million Chinatown development: a 100-foot section of Los Angeles first municipal water system. When first created in 1781, the Mother Ditch, or Zanja Madre was an open ditch fed by a small dam built in the Los Angeles River and was the citys main water source at the time. Officials enclosed the Zanja Madre in 1877, and it was finally abandoned in 1904.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 23:00:00 +0000

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