How Los Angeles Erased Entire Hills From Its Urban Core
In 1912 , Los Angeles consider an fearless plan to reshapeits topography . A radical calling itself the Bunker Hill Razing and RegradingAssociation proposed to pump water supply from the Pacific Ocean , pipe up it 20 miles tothe city center , and spray the seawater through high - pressure level blue jet against a ridge ofhills to the immediate NW of business district Los Angeles . In all , the projectwould sluice away some 20 million three-dimensional cubic yard of shale and sandstone thatresidents knew as Bunker and Fort Moore Hill ....