This water comes all the way from the Owens Valley—more than 200 miles away—to make the San Fernando Valley comfortable and green. There are no pumps along the way… It’s all done with siphons.
When they built the thing in the early 1900s, there were no engines that could pull the weight of some of the big concrete pipes they built, and they had to be pulled by up to 40-mule teams.
http://geoimages.berkeley.edu/geoimages/BainCalif/subjects/WaterOwens.html
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Oh, I miss the Santa Clarita Water Slide! You should get a picture at night when it has the red and green Christmas lights.
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