Search results for: “O'Shaughnessy Dam”
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Hetch Hetchy: Just Another Damn Getting Demolished
Time: “To some, the O’Shaughnessy Dam is a monument to the skills of the Irish-American engineer who built it. Elegant is the word that Susan Leal, general manager of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, uses to describe the curved wedge of rock and concrete that soars 300 ft. above the floor of the Hetch…
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Don’t tear down Yosemite’s dam / Drain the reservoir, you’ll get swamps and mosquitoes
SF Gate: “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 and waterfalls do speak for themselves. They…
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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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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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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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Blasting Away in Yosemite
Water released from O’Shaughnessy Dam at Hetch Hetchy Valley the northern side of the Tuolumne River Canyon. Photo by Thomas Kriese. You ever wondered why this hasn’t just blown away that whole side of the canyon? I mean, this looks like it’s got some pretty good pressure to be blasting across the canyon. Maybe it…
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Lookout Below
As part of a collaborative study of the Tuolumne River downstream of O’Shaughnessy Dam, the National Park Service and San Francisco Public Utilities Commission are conducting an experimental “pulse flow” release of water to simulate a typical pre-dam spring runoff condition. The Tuolumne River downstream of the dam is presently running at about 3,400 cubic…
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Hetch Hetchy Tunnel Work Completed
The Hetch Hetchy Pedestrian tunnel from O’Shaughnessy Dam to Wapama and Tueealala Falls is open again after a small cave-in this winter. Visitors are still being asked to use caution over the next few days while construction crews remove equipment from the site.
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Photo of the Day: Hetch Hetchy by Jared Kelly
Most people think of [O’Shaughnessy Dam] as being a behemoth that holds back the Tuolumne keeping [Hetch Hetchy] Valley submerged beneath hundreds of feet of water. Jared Kelly has managed to catch a different side of the dam in today’s Photo of the Day showing what a beautiful place Hetch Hetchy still is even though…
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Bush Requests Money To Study Restoring Hetch Hetchy
President Bush has stuck $7 million into the budget to study the impact of removing O’Shaughnessy Dam and restoring Hetch Hetchy. Unfortunately not everyone looks like they’re happy about it. ScrippsNews: “This week, the administration slid the Hetch Hetchy study funds into its overall Interior Department budget proposal. If approved by Congress, the money would…