The east side of the Sierra Nevada mountain range along Highway 395 on Wednesday, March 22, 2023, in Lone Pine, California.

The east side of the Sierra Nevada mountain range along Highway 395 on Wednesday, March 22, 2023, in Lone Pine, California. Flash flooding along the eastern Sierra Nevada a week ago caused an unprecedented breach in the City of Los Angeles Department of Water and Power Los Angeles Aqueduct, as well as other damage. (Gary Coronado/Los Angeles Times/TNS)

OLANCHA, Calif. — For more than 100 years, the Los Angeles Aqueduct has endured earthquakes, flash floods and dozens of bomb attacks as it wends and weaves through the canyons and deserts of the eastern Sierra Nevada.

But earlier this month, record storms accomplished the unthinkable when floodwaters undermined a 120-foot-long section of aqueduct in Owens Valley, causing its concrete walls to crumble.

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