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 [...]
Paul McHugh, Chronicle Outdoors Writer Sunday, July 10, 2005 A “Restore Hetch Hetchy” movement seeks to dismantle San Francisco’s O’Shaughnessy Dam and drain the reservoir it created north of Yosemite Valley. “Let the great granite walls and booming waterfalls speak for themselves, ” Restore’s director, Ron Good, wrote in a recent newsletter. But those walls [...]
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 [...]
Glen Martin, Chronicle Environment Writer Monday, June 13, 2005 The debate over the proposal to breach the Sierra’s O’Shaughnessy Dam, drain the reservoir behind it and restore Hetch Hetchy Valley to its former natural splendor is apt to intensify this summer with the release of a California Department of Water Resources study on the issue. [...]
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 [...]