Part of LA's First Municipal Water System Unearthed

[Subdeacon Joe]

http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-mother-ditch-20140422-story.html

 

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ad0Hmu4Epk

 

 

All that brick!

 

see also:

http://waterandpower.org/museum/Water_in_Early_Los_Angeles.html

 

and

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanja_Madre

[Hacker, SASS #55963]

I remember seeing something during the "big dig" in Boston, about excavation teams uncovering water mains that were made of wood.

[Shorty Jack Hammer]

I remember seeing something during the "big dig" in Boston, about excavation teams uncovering water mains that were made of wood.

back in the day when I was an electrician we used to install traffic signals and street light systems. While trenching in conduit in Seattle we found a bunch of old wooden water lines.