Editing Los Angeles River (section)

=== 20th century ===
[[File:Los Angeles District - Los Angeles River Subproject No. 129 - E.R.A. and Regular Funds - Hired Labor - Taken April... - NARA - 295356 -enhanced.jpg|thumb|Placing of concrete in a section of the counterforted channel wall on the left bank just above 26th Street in the city of Los Angeles, 1938.]]

The [[Los Angeles Aqueduct]] was opened in 1913.<ref name=":3">{{Cite book |last=Deverell William & |first=Sitton Tom |title=Water and Los Angeles: A Tale of Three Rivers, 1900-1941 |publisher=University of California Press |year=2017 |isbn=978-0-520-96597-3}}</ref> The heavy flow of the Los Angeles River presented many issues, as it began to get exploited as a sewer system. Along with these uses, populations surrounding the river often tossed feces and waste into the river, along with dead dogs and horses (and the occasional dead human), in hopes that they would get washed down stream and released to the open ocean waters.<ref name=":02">{{Cite journal |last1=Post |first1=Jason Michael |last2=Carter |first2=Perry |title=Unnatural Nature: Anglers Reimaginings of the Los Angeles River as Parkland |date=2022-03-15 |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00167428.2020.1866953 |journal=Geographical Review |language=en |volume=112 |issue=2 |pages=207–227 |doi=10.1080/00167428.2020.1866953 |bibcode=2022GeoRv.112..207P |s2cid=234133066 |issn=0016-7428}}</ref>