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The Lost Rivers Beneath Los Angeles – Rediscovered by Science

Suhail Ahmed

Los Angeles is famous for a river you can drive past without noticing: a concrete channel braided through freeways and sound walls, more artifact than waterway. But dig a little deeper – literally – and another city appears, etched by buried streams that once braided across alluvial fans and coastal wetlands. Hydrologists are now tracing ...