Tujunga Wash
Tujunga Wash is a 13-mile-long (20.9 km)[1] stream in Los Angeles County, California. It is a tributary of the Los Angeles River, providing about a fifth of its flow, and drains about 225 square miles (580 km2). It is called a wash because it is usually dry, especially the lower reaches, only carrying significant flows during and after storms, which usually only occur between November and April. The name of the wash derives from a Tongva village name.[2]
About
The name Tujunga or Tuxunga means "old woman's place" in both
Tujunga Wash consists of two forks, both beginning in the
Big Tujunga Dam was built by Los Angeles County and completed in 1931. Big Tujunga Reservoir can hold 5,960 acre-feet (7,350,000 m3) of water. In the
In 1969, there was a flood in the Tujunga Wash. Water flowed down a formerly inactive channel and entered a large gravel pit 15 to 23 m (49 to 75 ft) deep. The channel bed degraded by about 4 meters (13 ft), leading to the failure of three highway bridges and the loss of seven homes.[6]
Crossings
From north to south (with year built in parentheses):
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See also
- Tujunga Wash Greenway and Bike Path
- Great Wall of Los Angeles
References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed March 16, 2011
- ISBN 9781496219558.
- ^ King, Chester. Overview of the History of American Indians in the Santa Monica Mountains. Rep. Topanga, California: Topanga Anthropological Consultants, 2011. Print. Prepared for the National Park Service Pacific West Region Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
- ^ Johnson, John R. "Ethnohistoric Overview for the Santa Susana Pass State Historic Park Cultural Resources Inventory Project" (PDF). Retrieved 19 July 2020.
- ^ McCoy, John (July 21, 2011). "Big Tujunga Dam Seismic Retrofit Project completed". Los Angeles Daily News. Archived from the original on April 25, 2012. Retrieved June 20, 2021.
- ^ Bull, W. B. and K. M. Scott (1974). "Impact of mining gravel from urban stream beds in the Southwestern United States." Geology 2: 171-174.