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Today marks the anniversary of the deadliest man-made disaster in California history. It’s a largely forgotten event which killed hundreds of people in ....
It was the deadliest disaster in Ventura County, but today it’s all but forgotten. A brand new dam collapsed near what is now Santa Clarita, sending a wall ....
St. Francis Dam Disaster 93 Years Later The St. Francis Dam Disaster’s 93rd anniversary is still remembered to this day by the Santa Clarita Valley, along with other cities affected by the collapse. 93 years ago, the Saint Francis Dam broke and killed more than 400 people in Santa Clarita and the surrounding areas. Filled with water supplied by the Los Angeles Aqueduct, which allowed water to flow south from the Owens Valley in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, the St. Francis Dam provided Los Angeles with a reserve aquifer that could last at least a year. On March 12, 1928, three minutes before midnight, the dam broke and sent a wall of water down San Francisquito Canyon through Castaic Junction, Santa Clarita, Piru, Camulos, Bardsdale, Fillmore, Santa Paula and Ventura before emptying into the Pacific Ocean between Oxnard and Ventura. ....