By: John Upton
Examiner Staff Writer
12/28/09 9:15 AM PST
SAN FRANCISCO — Julie Labonte didn’t know what her high-achieving career as a water engineer held in store for her as she bounded down Mount Kilimanjaro in 2005, propelled by gravity, in the midst of a yearlong globetrot.
The Canadian-born, U.S.-trained engineer had walked away from an illustrious [...]
Statement from Arthur Jensen, General Manager
Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency (BAWSCA)
BAWSCA supports the SFPUC’s cautious management of the limited water supply and the timely and prudent call for customers’ continued conservation of water and further reductions in water use as we go into the hot summer season.
In summary, there is cause for concern.
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John Garamendi
Friday, August 5, 2005
As Californians, we now have the opportunity to do something truly great for our state, our children and for generations to come. We can, and should, restore the magnificence of the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park. Today, there is great momentum to support this effort. It is a [...]
Jenna Olsen
Friday, August 5, 2005
This summer, waterfalls that normally trickle instead roar, rivers surge through their channels at higher flows than usual, and the fishing is outstanding. Vacationers are soaking in the glories of rivers like the spectacular Tuolumne, which flows through Yosemite National Park, the Stanislaus National Forest and the Central Valley.
Only in years [...]
By Jay R. Lund and Sarah E. Null — Special To The Bee
Published 2:15 am PDT Sunday, June 26, 2005
San Francisco’s Hetch Hetchy water supply system was a marvel of engineering and public administration when constructed in the 1920s and now provides reliable, inexpensive and high-quality water to 2.4 million people in the San Francisco [...]
Thu, May 26, 2005
By Mike Taugher
SAN FRANCISCO – The nation’s top natural resources official cast a cup of cold, mountain water Wednesday on an ambitious proposal to tear out a century-old dam and restore Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park.
“We have not closed any doors on anything, but what I see is a [...]
Wednesday, March 23, 2005
By Edward Carpenter
Daily News Staff Writer
Independent auditors will be hired to double-check San Francisco Public Utilities Commission calculations regarding the increasing costs of the Hetch Hetchy Water System overhaul, Bay Area water officials said yesterday.
“I do have some questions,” said Art Jensen, general manager of the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation [...]
Ken Garcia
Monday, January 31, 2005
THERE ARE at least a few million good reasons why San Francisco needs to fix the aging and fragile Hetch Hetchy water system within the next decade, but the most compelling one is a simple number: 37.
That figure represents how many years it has been since city engineers were able to [...]
Tim Holt
Sunday, January 16, 2005
San Francisco, tear down that dam.
But the hometown of the Sierra Club dithers over the fate of Hetch Hetchy, the main holding tank for city water in Yosemite National Park, while a Republican governor takes the lead by default. The city’s fearless leader, Mayor Gavin Newsom, is a study [...]
By Douglas Fischer
STAFF WRITER
Saturday, December 04, 2004 – Yosemite National Park may be turning a new leaf come spring. But some see even greater restoration potential on the horizon:
A remade Hetch Hetchy Valley — minus the reservoir that’s kept the valley underwater for 80 years.
In September, Environmental Defense grabbed headlines across [...]