A bill that would create a national memorial for the 1928 St. Francis Dam disaster was reintroduced in the U.S. Senate after initially being introduced by former Rep. Steve Knight.

The St. Francis Dam Disaster Memorial Act has been reintroduced in the U.S. Senate by both Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-California, and Senator Kamala Harris, D-California, according to a tweet from Harris Thursday.

“This week @SenFeinstein and I reintroduced a bill to establish a national memorial to honor the 431 Californians whose lives were lost in the 1928 St. Francis Dam disaster,” Harris announced on Twitter.

This week @SenFeinstein & I reintroduced a bill to establish a national memorial to honor the 431 Californians whose lives were lost in the 1928 St. Francis Dam disaster. This monument will serve as a reminder of the profound consequences of a failure of infrastructure.

— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) January 18, 2019

On March 12, 1928, three minutes before midnight, the St. Francis Dam broke and sent a wave of water down San Francisquito Canyon through Castaic Junction, Santa Clarita, Piru, Camulos, Bardsdale, Fillmore, Santa Paula and Ventura before emptying into the Pacific Ocean between Oxnard and Ventura.

The broken dam created a 55-mile path of death and destruction, killing more than 430 people.

“This monument will serve as a reminder of the profound consequences of a failure of infrastructure,” Harris wrote.

The St. Francis Dam failure is considered to be one of the worst American civil engineering disasters of the 20th century and remains the second greatest loss of life in California history, after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, according to officials.

A bill to create a monument was initially introduced by then-Congressman Steve Knight, as H.R. 2156 in 2017.

“H.R. 2156 will secure a beautiful memorial site for those lives lost and greatly affected by a devastating failure in our civil engineering history,” Knight said at the time.

That bill would have created a 440-acre national monument at the site of the 1928 St. Francis Dam disaster in San Francisquito Canyon, which would have been funded by private donations to the Saint Francis Dam Disaster Memorial Foundation.

H.R. 2156 was passed in the House in July of 2017, and the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources adopted the bill by unanimous consent in October 2018.

However, the Senate reduced the dam memorial site size from the proposed 440 acres to 353 acres, and the bill was not acted upon before the 115th Congressional Session ended in December.

The reintroduced bill, now known as S.129, has since been read twice, and referred back to the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources for further consideration.

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