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# Floodpath: The Deadliest Man-Made Disaster of 20th-Century America and the Making of Modern Los Angeles
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- Published: 2026-09-05T21:46:29.000Z
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- Description: Jon Wilkman, 2016
- Author: Meghan Walter
- Tags: Reading, Non-fiction, #Import 2026-09-05 14:48

Bloomsbury USA · 2016 · 331 pages · [ISBN 1620409178](https://openlibrary.org/isbn/1620409178?ref=meghantheengineer.com)

Just before midnight on March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam, a twenty-story-high concrete structure just fifty miles north of Los Angeles, suddenly collapsed, releasing a devastating flood that roared fifty-four miles to the Pacific Ocean, destroying everything in its path. It was a horrific catastrophe, yet one which today is virtually forgotten.

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