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																								If nothing else, the history of Los Angeles is a study in economic growth. Water was brought here to ensure continued growth, first to make a semi-desert into productive farmland, then for a growing city. Whereas the importation of water has been a necessary ingredient in this growth process, the control of flood waters has seldom been looked at as a significant factor. In fact, flood control has been vital to protecting already developed property and allowing the real estate industry to flourish. Like many infrastructural improvements, flood control is too big a job to be left to private enterprise. After all, public safety is at stake. In 1914, after severe flooding and just one year after the city had secured an outside water supply (the L.A. River had been the city's primary source of water until the L.A. aqueduct was completed in 1913), the County passed its first flood control act. In the 30's the federal government, through the Army Corps of Engineers, helped ensure that the relationship between flood control and private real estate flourished, in effect amounting to an incentive and subsidy for tremendous growth.
	The Cascades
					Riverfront Property