As I stood overlooking the vast, somewhat desolate valley below, refrains from Mission Impossible rang in my mind: "If you should choose to accept this assignment, you'll be capturing the largest construction project in the country at the time." The project was to build a water reservoir to hold enough water to supply Southern California from Santa Barbara on the north to San Diego on the south. The Metropolitan Water District/Los Angeles had engineered the Diamond Valley Reservoir in Hemet, California, and Parsons Engineering would be managing construction, damming both ends of two mountain ranges and one smaller dam.
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