The Story of Big Creek

Nature never intended Southern California to be anything but desert, so they said. But settlers turned it into farms, factories and living areas for millions of people.
The key to that development was 300 miles north, in the High Sierra, where the company that became the Southern California Edison Company undertook the creation of one of the great water power developments in the world.
They called it Big Creek.
Completed in 1929, this work of engineering art involved six dams, eight tunn...