{"id":1104,"date":"2015-07-27T21:04:12","date_gmt":"2015-07-28T04:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=1104"},"modified":"2024-02-20T16:26:42","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T00:26:42","slug":"a-dam-fiasco-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=1104","title":{"rendered":"A Dam Fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>To look at it now, solidly in place, you would never know its disturbed history. The broken course of the Sutherland project is one of those fantastic things that could only happen here.\u00a0 <\/em>&#8211;Shelley Higgins, former City Attorney, in <em>This Fantastic City<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The story of the ill-starred Sutherland Dam, known in its day as a\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Dam-Fiasco2.pdf\">A Dam Fiasco<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1106\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Sutherland1.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1106\" data-attachment-id=\"1106\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?attachment_id=1106\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Sutherland1.jpg?fit=1582%2C937\" data-orig-size=\"1582,937\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Sutherland1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Abandoned Sutherland Dam, 1930s.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Sutherland1.jpg?fit=1024%2C607\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1106\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Sutherland1.jpg?resize=300%2C178\" alt=\"Abandoned Sutherland Dam, 1930s.\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Sutherland1.jpg?resize=300%2C178 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Sutherland1.jpg?resize=1024%2C607 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Sutherland1.jpg?w=1582 1582w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abandoned Sutherland Dam, 1930s.<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fblikebutton_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-left: 10px;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sandiegoyesterday.com%2F%3Fp%3D1104&amp;layout=standard&amp;show-faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:26px\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To look at it now, solidly in place, you would never know its disturbed history. 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