Guy McCarthy Feb 5, 2021 Feb 5, 2021 Updated Feb 8, 2021 The City and County of San Francisco and the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission are planning a five-year $140 million project ...
The ultimate goal of restoring Hetch Hetchy by replacing San Francisco’s water storage further downstream by enlarging Don Pedro Reservoir as one possibility, could queue up a rare opportunity.
Currently San Francisco and other Bay Area communities take an annual average of 265,000 acre feet of water from the Tuolumne River at Hetch Hetchy via a 167-mile pipe that passes under Modesto.
In that year, says the timeline, "John Quinton of the U.S. Geological Survey issues a report mentioning that a reservoir in the Hetch Hetchy Valley could serve as an unfailing water source for San ...
The compelling story of how San Francisco secured its fabled water supply the Hetch Hetchy reservoir in Yosemite National Park The film traces the early history and controversy to bring pristine ...