"In Search of 100 Mules Walking"

NOVEMBER 5, 2013 MARKS THE 100 YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF THE OPENING OF THE LOS ANGELES AQUEDUCT 100 mules will traverse the 240 miles of pipelines and canals that bring water from the Eastern Sierra through a gravity-fed system to Los Angeles, passing through three counties and nearly 50 communities along the way. Mule power shaped the modern West and was a primary force in constructing the aqueduct, an engineering feat that took only seven years to complete despite the rough terrain. The parade will take nearly a month commencing at the Intake and will culminate in a Veterans Day Parade down Western Avenue in Glendale to welcome the mules into the City of Los Angeles on November 11, 2013, followed by a ceremony at the Equidome to celebrate our country’s equine labor force—the mule. This commemorative action is a prelude to Bending the Los Angeles River Back into the City, a work that will pierce the concrete jacket of the Los Angeles River and use a sixty-foot waterwheel to reconnect the land to the river that originally supplied all the city’s water. This action is coordinated with the support of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) that has itself been working to make a new century of water delivery happen. Also see: http://www.laaqueduct100.com/

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