The dam, which sits in a natural gap in the hills, was built to hold back catastrophic flooding on the San Gabriel and Rio Hondo rivers — which were not uncommon before a system of dams were ...

Aaron Smith, senior project advisor with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, says the dam was planned in the 1950s “to help reduce flood risk throughout Los Angeles County between here and the Pacific ...

Related: Feds rush Whittier Narrows Dam fix to prevent breach that would flood 1 million ... overflowing the San Gabriel and Rio Hondo river banks and affecting the communities of: Tax bill passed by ...

“This is a safe dam, but downstream are millions of people ... overflowing the San Gabriel and Rio Hondo river banks and affecting the communities of: Artesia, Bell Gardens, Bellflower, Carson, ...

One was over the Rio Hondo Dam basin on Nov. 20, 1985 and an immature bird, exhibiting plumage between first and second year, remained almost a month in the same area from Nov. 21 to Dec. 19 ...