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The Cascades in 2013. LAO photo.
If you missed last year's rare opening of the gates to the historic Cascades in Sylmar, the DWP is opening them up again this weekend. The public can stand beside the iconic Los Angeles waterway — where the water in William Mulholland's aqueduct from the Owens Valley arrives in the city and splashes down a channel, churned into whitewater by stones — on Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Cascades are located beside Foothill Boulevard at the intersection with Balboa Boulevard. DWP staff will be on hand to answer questions.
The public was allowed in to check out the waterworks last year for the centennial celebration of the aqueduct.
