[truth_seeker]

Before the Santa Ana was confined between modern cement banks, floods took place from Seal Beach to Irvine.

Also before those banks, the silt runoff formed the Balboa Peninsula.

[chrisinoc]

“Before the Santa Ana was confined between modern cement banks, floods took place from Seal Beach to Irvine.”

The Los Angeles River used to do the same thing. In 1938 my mother’s family farm in Compton was heavily flooded.