Hyperion, California
Hyperion is a former settlement in Los Angeles County, California.[1] Hyperion was a stop on the Pacific Electric Redondo Beach via Playa del Rey Line that lay at an elevation of 33 feet (10 m).[1]
Hyperion | |
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Former settlement | |
 Hyperion, 1921 | |
  Hyperion Location in California | |
| Coordinates: 33°55′34″N 118°25′58″W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | California |
| County | Los Angeles County |
| Elevation | 33 ft (10 m) |
Hyperion still appeared on USGS maps as of 1934.[1] Hyperion Pier at this location existed from before 1912 to after 1937.[2] The pier may have been the site of the outfall sewer into the ocean, as the wharf seemingly carried a redwood pipe 2,000 ft (610 m) "out to a submerged end."[3] According to an interview with one sanitation engineer, it was a "five-foot wooden pipe made just like a barrel, only straight strips. The reason I know this, a guy came down from Oregon representing the wood industry, and he wanted a piece of that pipe. He got permission from the city of Los Angeles to go up to the top and saw out a little piece. And they wanted to show how long a piece of wood would stand sewage infiltration."[4]
References
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Hyperion, California
- Hyperion Pier, El Segundo, 1937, retrieved 2022-12-13
- Thomas, Franklin; Hyde, Charles Gilman (1940). "The Sewage Situation of the City of Los Angeles". Sewage Works Journal. 12 (5): 879–894. ISSN 0096-9362. JSTOR 25029088.
- SENIOR OPERATOR AT THE HYPERION TREATMENT PLANT James Howe Van Norman Interviewed by Andrew D. Basiago Completed under the auspices of the Oral History Program University of California Los Angeles 1989 The Regents of the University of California https://static.library.ucla.edu/oralhistory/pdf/masters/21198-zz0015xdw4-1-master.pdf
