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May 25, 1912

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An Aqueduct Two Hundred and Forty Miles Long

How steel and concrete siphons will supply Los Angeles with water

By Burt A. Heinly

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This article was originally published with the title “An Aqueduct Two Hundred and Forty Miles Long” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 106 No. 21 (May 1912), p. 476
doi:10.1038/scientificamerican05251912-476

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