Ken Garcia
Friday, August 5, 2005

I HATE TO throw a wet blanket on the hopes of all those who want to restore Yosemite’s Hetch Hetchy Valley by tearing down the dam that stores water for 2.4 million Bay Area residents, but reality suggests I must.

The state’s top water experts are currently going through stacks of research and previous studies to determine the potential cost and feasibility of such a venture — an idea fanned by the staid Sacramento Bee and then carried in an ongoing crusade by a number of well-meaning environmental groups. But after talking to a number of state and local officials, the preliminary results are in — it’s a pipe dream.

Read more at the San Francisco Chronicle.