Search results for: “Hetch Hetchy”
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Hetch Hetchy Road Open
If you like rattlesnakes and big dam things then I highly encourage you to give it a look.
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Hetch Hetchy Road and Glacier Point Roads Closed
The Glacier Point Road remains closed to fire activity and back burning operations. The Hetch Hetchy Road is closed due to a rockslide. There is no approximate reopening date for either road at this time. Highway 41, Highway 140 and Highway 120 at both the Tioga Pass entrance and Big Oak Flat entrance are open.
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Hetch Hetchy Road Closed
The Hetch Hetchy Road is closed indefinitely after park officials discovered water undercutting a hillside beneath the road making the road “extremely unstable”. The road is still intact, but water undercutting the hillside below the pavement has made it “extremely unstable,” Cobb said. The National Park Service temporarily closed the road in December due to…
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SF Voters say “No” to Hetch Hetchy
A ballot proposal that would have led to the dismantling of O’Shaughnessy Dam and drained Hetch Hetcy valley has been defeated by San Francisco voters.
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Thinking About Hiking Around Hetch Hetchy? Think Again.
If you were thinking about doing some hiking in the Hetch Hetchy area, maybe around back to Wapama Fall, you should probably start coming up with an alternate plan now.
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SF Halts Water Flow from Hetch Hetchy
O’Shaughnessy Dam releases water from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir. Photo by Inklein. San Francisco is high and dry as the SFPUC cut water delivery from Hetch Hetchy for at least a month. The shutdown is part of a planned outage to allow for maintenance on the aging water delivery system and is expected to last until…
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November Ballot Initiative Could Let Bay Area Water Users Voice View on Hetch Hetchy
A Restore Hetch Hetchy booth outside a Whole Foods store in Noe Valley helps to make Bay Area citizens aware of Hetch Hetchy and gather signatures to get a new initiative on the November Ballot. Photo by Steve Rhodes. San Francisco residents could get the chance to vote on draining Hetch Hetchy Reservoir if a…
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New Tunnel to Replace Aging Hetch Hetchy Pipes Carrying Water to San Francisco
Part of the Hetch Hetchy water system delivers water to the Moccasin Creek power generation facility near Groveland. Photo by Flickred!. A $350 million tunnel is being drilled beneath San Francisco Bay as part of an ambitious plan to update the aging Hetch Hetchy water system. The tunnel will create a 21-mile stretch of new…
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Demolishing Hetch Hetchy Could Save California’s Salmon Population – or Not
The Tuolumne River below Hetch Hetchy Dam. Photo by Jared Kelly. There’s a very interesting piece by columnist Bill McEwen in the Fresno Bee about the decline in salmon coming up California’s rivers and salmon might be the dams undoing. The Tuolumne, a tributary of the San Joaquin, is “the keystone” to bringing back California’s…
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Schwarzenegger Calls for More Dams Like Hetch Hetchy
Hetch Hetchy was once a beautiful valley much like Yosemite until the City of San Francisco decided to damn the Tuolumne River and create a resevoir after the 1906 earthquake destroyed much of the city. Photo by Steve Ryan. Governor Schwarzenegger says he’ll block any proposal to overhaul the state’s water supply if it doesn’t…