Owens valley and the aqueduct by Ana Leon Navarro https://padlet.com/al0037/tm66t3hdfik9 Ana leon Kristian Alejandro en-us 2015-12-01 19:20:39 UTC 2023-02-17 00:56:23 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.storage.googleapis.com/portrait/rose_close.jpg al0037 https://padlet.com/al0037/tm66t3hdfik9/wish/84294931 2015-11-20 20:04:37 UTC https://padlet.com/al0037/tm66t3hdfik9/wish/84294931 2-The Owens river  started from the southern tip of the  Long Valley Caldera  gathering water from multiple streams . This valley region supported more than 2,000 plants species and 320 birds species and fostered a wealthy microenvironment. The first place to be consider for govt sponseted irrigation system was the owens valley and would lead to agriculture in the area. Implying speeches and interviews superintendent and major of los angeles William Mulholland and Frederick Eaton wanted support for the water project. The farmers wouldve benefited insread Eaton bought the land  and the reclamation project was canceled. Eaton then sold the land to los angeles and the first acqueduct was build. Water was needed for los angeles and the acqueduct needed to pull water form the owens river. al0037 https://padlet.com/al0037/tm66t3hdfik9/wish/84294932 2015-11-18 19:44:59 UTC https://padlet.com/al0037/tm66t3hdfik9/wish/84294932 The owens valley acqueduct  was successful . The lawsuits led Los Angeles  to agree to partially restore water in the Owens River. al0037 https://padlet.com/al0037/tm66t3hdfik9/wish/84294933 2015-11-18 19:36:14 UTC https://padlet.com/al0037/tm66t3hdfik9/wish/84294933 In 1902 Congress created the United States Reclamation Service  al0037 https://padlet.com/al0037/tm66t3hdfik9/wish/84294934 2015-11-18 19:34:33 UTC https://padlet.com/al0037/tm66t3hdfik9/wish/84294934 Owens valley was a dryly  as 100 miles long by 6- to -20 miles wide drop in earths crust betweeen 2 large faults at the eastern base of the sierra nevada and the western base of the Inyo  al0037 https://padlet.com/al0037/tm66t3hdfik9/wish/84294935 2015-11-18 19:20:56 UTC https://padlet.com/al0037/tm66t3hdfik9/wish/84294935