U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District
Dam and spillways
Impounds
Tujunga Wash
Height
97 feet (30 m)
Length
2 miles (3.2 km)
Reservoir
Total capacity
74,100 acre⋅ft (91,400,000 m3)
Website Corps Lakes Gateway - Hansen Dam
Hansen Dam is a flood control dam in the northeastern San Fernando Valley, in the Lake View Terrace neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.[1] The dam was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District in 1940.[2] Hansen Dam was named after horse ranchers Homer and Marie Hansen, who established a ranch in the 19th century.
The Hansen Dam Recreation Center is located in the flood control basin and surrounding slopes behind the dam.[3]
Aerial view of the Hansen Dam and Hansen Dam Golf Course (2022).
^Pitarre, Alyson. "Where country living sidles up to the city." Los Angeles Times. June 12, 2005. 1. Retrieved March 19, 2010.
^"Dam Safety Program". U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Retrieved April 7, 2014.
^laparks: Hansen Dam recreation center . Retrieved February 1, 2012
HansenDam is a flood control dam in the northeastern San Fernando Valley, in the Lake View Terrace neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. The dam was...
western facing San Gabriel Mountains and passes into and then through the HansenDam Recreation Center in Lake View Terrace. It flows south along the Verdugo...
Tujunga Creek continues west into the usually dry Hansen Flood Control Basin, formed by the HansenDam. Here it receives Little Tujunga Creek also from...
View Terrace in San Fernando Valley before King stopped in front of the HansenDam recreation center. When King finally stopped, LAPD and CHP officers surrounded...
tested. The dam underwent a seismic retrofit, completed in July 2011, which included doubling the thickness of the gravity arch dam. HansenDam was built...
and directed by Harold Ramis. Filming took place at a fake beach near HansenDam, as it was "the bleakest lake [they could] find." The crew had to deal...
Army Barracks from Washington state were moved to a site in front of HansenDam in Pacoima, California, and rebuilt as 1,500 apartments for returning...
the parole violation that could follow. King left the freeway near the HansenDam Recreation Area and the pursuit continued through residential streets...
western end of the Valley, in Los Angeles, California. Sepulveda Dam, along with HansenDam located in the north San Fernando Valley, was constructed in response...
Queen Mary Events Park in Long Beach, Lake Dolores Waterpark in Barstow, HansenDam in Lake View Terrace, and the International Agri-Center in Tulare. In...
in the San Fernando Valley and was shot at a drive-in restaurant near HansenDam named Baby Beef Burgers, which has since been demolished. This same restaurant...
drives into it. The "Beach Games" episode was shot at a fake beach near HansenDam, California. "Lake Scranton Route 307, Scranton, PA 18505". Cheryl A....
and debris from entering the dam's outlets. After the completion of HansenDam downstream, the importance of Big Tujunga Dam for flood control has decreased;...
Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed...
prevented". The second horse died two weeks later on April 25, at the HansenDam Equestrian Center in San Fernando Valley. Reports from both the AHA and...
to provide a greater degree of protection to downstream communities. HansenDam had already begun construction but stood incomplete during the 1938 flood...
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over and operate the former Children's Museum of Los Angeles facility at HansenDam, located in the northern San Fernando Valley. The city provided financing...
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