WSP04825

• File Number: 8210.140.20
• Description: Colorado River Basin Organizations and Entities - Colorado River Basin States Forum - California
• State: CA
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 1/1/1939
• Author: Metro Water District
• Title: Metropolitan Water District of Southern California - History and First Annual Report
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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for the Torrance line was started July lOth and finished July 25,
1939, the entire line. being completed on Septemher Is\" The capa-
city of this lateral is 20 c.f.s. and the head varies from 255 to 400
feet. The pipe was laid in 190th Street from the valve structure
east of Vermont Avenue to the city limits at Western Avenue.
Trench excavation on the Compton line was accomplished between
July 31st and August 10th, and all construction was completed
September 8, 1939. This line, extending along Rosecrans Avenue
from the valve turnout at Avalon Boulevard to the west boundary
of the city, has a capacity of 10 c.f.s. under a head which varies
from 210 to 440 feet. Following the customary specified hydrostatic
tests of these lines for leakage, all clean-up was finished and the
work was accepted by the District on September 30, 1939. Data
concerning welded steel pipe iines will be found in table 19.

Glendale to S(wta Monica Feeder
This feeder extends from the west portal of San Rafael No.2
tunnel in the City of Glendale, through Glendale, Burbank, North
Hollywood, Hollywood, Beverly Hills, and West Los Angeles to a
reservoir of the City of Santa Monica on Bundy Drive near Wilshire
Boulevard. It consists of five pipe schedules, in addition to the
Hollywood tunnel through the ridge between Cahuenga Boulevard
freeway and Nichols Canyon. The total length is about 23.4 miles.
A contract for constructing the first section, designated schedule
29P, consisting of precast concrete pipe with lock joints extending
from San Rafael tunnel to Glendale Avenue at Glenoaks Boulevard
in Glendale, was awarded May 17, 1940 to American Concrcte and
Steel Pipe Company. On the same day a contract was awarded
to the ,r. F. Shea Co., Inc. for schedule 30SC, a welded steel pipe
with spun-mortar lining and gunite exterior coating, extending
from schedule 29P to the intersection of Kenneth Road and Verdugo
Avenue in Burbank. Field construction on these two schedules had
not been started on June 30,1940.
A contract for the 3,739-foot Hollywood tunnel also was awarded
May 17, 1940 to J. F. Shea Co., Inc., which moved equipment to
the north portal and began approach cut excavation June 6, 1940.
One week later the south 1)ortal cut was started and by the end of
the month 304 feet had been excavated in the two headings.
On June 28, 1940 contracts were awarded to United Concrete
Pipe Corporation for schedule 31P, consisting of preeast concrete
pipe with lock joints, between schedule 30Se and the north portal
of Hollywood tunnel, and to Artukovich Brothers for schedules