:05:03
Chief engineer?
:05:11
This type of investigation
can be hard on your pocketbook.
:05:17
- It takes time...
- Money doesn't matter to me.
:05:26
Okay, we'll see what we can do.
:05:32
Today you can hop a streetcar, and in
25 minutes, you end up in the Pacific.
:05:39
You can swim in it and fish in it,
but you can't drink it.
:05:42
You can't
irrigate an orange grove with it.
:05:46
We live next door to the ocean,
but we also live on the edge of a desert.
:05:51
Los Angeles is a desert community.
:05:54
Beneath this building is a desert.
:05:57
Without water, the dust will rise up
cover us as though we never existed.
:06:02
The Alto Vallejo can save us from this.
:06:05
I suggest that 8 million dollars
is a fair price to pay -
:06:10
- To keep the desert from our streets,
and not on top of them.
:06:20
Mayor Bagby... Let's hear from
all the departments again.
:06:23
We'd better take Water and Power first.
Mr Mulwray?
:06:39
In case you've forgotten, over 500 died
when the Van der Lip Dam gave way.
:06:46
This shale is similar to the permeable
shale in the Van der Lip disaster.
:06:54
It couldn't withstand
that kind of pressure.
:06:56
Now you propose
another dirt-banked dam. -