The crowd celebrating at the Owensmouth Cascades, near Sylmar, on November 5, 1913

Illustration showing bird's-eye view of mountainside, tunnel opening, canal forming Owensmouth Cascase, and crowd celebrating the opening of the gates releasing water from the Owens River into San Fernando Valley via canal.

Illus. in: The great thirst : Californians and water, 1770s-1990s / Norris Hundley, Jr. Berkeley : University of California Press, c1992, p. 155.
Photograph courtesy of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.