Melvin Blevins served with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power as watermaster for the Upper Los Angeles River Area, and as senior hydrologic engineer in the Groundwater and Water Rights, Los Angeles Aqueduct Division. The collection consists mostly of legal material relating to a trial regarding water rights between Los Angeles and portions of the San Fernando Valley.

Blevins served with the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power as watermaster for the Upper Los Angeles River Area, and as senior hydrologic engineer in the Groundwater and Water Rights, Los Angeles Aqueduct Division; wrote Background Report on Mono Basin Geology and Hydrology (1984) and Mono Basin Geology and Hydrology (1987).

74 boxes (37 linear ft.)

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