The Colorado River aqueduct as a supplement to local water‐sources

Abstract

Deliveries of Colorado River water to member cities of The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California began here at Pasadena on June 17, 1941, after an eight‐year aqueduct‐construction period that had been preceded by an equally long program of surveys, investigations, and planning. To many of us who have worked on the project, this date naturally seemed an end and a climax, rather than the real beginning of an even more important, if less exciting, period of operations, for which all earlier work had merely been a preparation. So before passing to present problems of technical interest, as indicated by the assigned title, the aqueduct had best be located and its construction completed for you briefly. It has been so often and thoroughly described in detail in many technical journals, however, that little repetition of general data is now justified.