Sepulveda Dam
The Sepulveda Dam is a dry dam constructed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to withhold winter flood waters along the Los Angeles River. Completed in 1941, at a cost of $6,650,561, it is located south of center in the San Fernando Valley, approximately eight miles east of the river's source in the western end of the Valley, in Los Angeles, California.Photo: Mokwella, Public domain.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sepulveda station and Leo Magnus Cricket Complex.
Sepulveda station
Bus station
Photo: HanSangYoon, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sepulveda station is a station on the G Line of the Los Angeles Metro Busway system. It is named after nearby Sepulveda Boulevard, which travels north-south and crosses the east-west busway route. Sepulveda station is situated 1,800 feet northeast of Sepulveda Dam.
Leo Magnus Cricket Complex
Pitch
Photo: Junkyardsparkle, CC0.
The Leo Magnus Cricket Complex or Sepulveda Basin Cricket Fields, aka Woodley Park, is a group of four cricket grounds located in the Van Nuys neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, United States. Leo Magnus Cricket Complex is situated 2,300 feet northwest of Sepulveda Dam.
The Japanese Garden
Garden
Photo: Twinjalanugraha, Public domain.
The Japanese Garden is a 6.5-acre public Japanese garden in Los Angeles, located in the Lake Balboa district in the central San Fernando Valley, adjacent to the Van Nuys and Encino neighborhoods.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Van Nuys and Lake Balboa.
Van Nuys
Photo: Los Angeles, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Van Nuys is a prominent neighborhood in the middle of the San Fernando Valley, a part of the city of Los Angeles in Southern California. Although there are few tourist attractions here, Van Nuys serves as a civic and commercial center for the Valley.
Lake Balboa
Suburb
Lake Balboa is a neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley region of Los Angeles, California. The area was previously part of Van Nuys. Lake Balboa is situated 2 miles northwest of Sepulveda Dam.
South Valley
Photo: Vandad Zarrin, CC BY 3.0.
South Valley is an area of the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. It is made up of the neighborhoods of the southwestern portion of the valley: Canoga Park, Encino, Reseda, Tarzana, West Hills, Winnetka and Woodland Hills.
Sepulveda Dam
- Type: Dam
- Description: flood control dam on the Los Angeles River in California, United States
- Category: flood control dam
- Location: Los Angeles, Southern California, California, United States, North America
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Latitude
34.17649° or 34° 10′ 35″ northLongitude
-118.4715° or 118° 28′ 17″ westOpen location code
85635GGH+H9OpenStreetMap ID
way 1123760803OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=damWikidata ID
Q7452396
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Spanish—“Sepulveda Dam” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “presa Sepulveda”
- Cebuano: “Sepulveda Dam”
- Chinese: “塞普爾韋達大壩”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سد سيبولفيدا”
- French: “barrage Sepulveda”
- French: “Barrage Sepulveda”
- Hausa: “Sepulveda Dam”
- Hebrew: “סכר ספולוודה”
- Italian: “diga di Sepulveda”
- Japanese: “セプルベダ・ダム”
- Persian: “سد سپولودا”
- Slovenian: “jez Sepulveda”
- Spanish: “Presa Sepulveda”
- “Sepulveda Dam”
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