SAN FRANCISCO AND THE HETCH HETCHY RESERVOIR, HEARING HELD BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON THE PUBLIC LANDS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES1908 |
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San Francisco and the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, Hearing Held Before the ... Hj Res Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2016 |
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acquired acres authority beauty California camping grounds CHAIRMAN citizens of San city and county city engineer city of San committee Congress construction county of San December December 14 drainage area easement Eleanor and Hetch ENGLEBRIGHT fact February 15 fee simple filed forest reserve Fork homestead Government grant HETCH HETCHY RESERVOIR Hetch Hetchy Valley Hetchy and Lake Horace McFarland House of Representatives Interior John Muir KAHN Lake Eleanor Reservoir legislation MANSON maps of location matter meadows Middle Fork Modesto and Turlock Modesto irrigation district mountain municipal water supply national forest NEEDHAM patent petition Phelan Pinchot proposed protect public interest Public Lands question reservoir rights reservoir sites resolution respectfully San Francisco scenery scenic Secretary GARFIELD SMITH stipulation storage submerged supply for San tion tracts trail Tueeulala Tuolumne Canyon Tuolumne River Turlock irrigation districts VOLSTEAD vote Washington water rights watersheds wonderful Yosemite National Park Yosemite Valley
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Seite 12 - ... for canals, ditches, pipes and pipe lines, flumes, tunnels, or other water conduits, and for water plants, dams, and reservoirs used to promote irrigation or mining or quarrying, or the manufacturing or cutting of timber or lumber, or the supplying of water for domestic, public, or any other beneficial uses...
Seite 14 - The City and County of San Francisco will develop the Lake Eleanor site to Its full capacity before beginning the development of the Hetch Hetchy site, and the development of the latter will be begun only when the needs of the City and County of San Francisco and adjacent cities, which may join with it in obtaining a common water supply, may require such further development.
Seite 14 - ... 6. The City of San Francisco will upon request sell to said Modesto and Turlock Irrigation Districts for the use of any land owner or owners therein for pumping sub-surface water for drainage or irrigation any excess of electric power which may be generated such as may not be used for the water supply herein provided and for the actual municipal purposes of the City and County of San Francisco, (which purposes shall not include sale to private persons nor to corporations) at such price as will...
Seite 13 - ... areas in the Yosemite National Park and the Sierra National Forest to equal the remainder of that reservoir area. The City will surrender to the United States equivalent areas outside of the reservoir sites and within the National Park and adjacent reserves in exchange for the remaining land in the reservoir sites, for which authority from Congress will be obtained if necessary.
Seite 10 - Franciaco, and any other city or cities which may with the approval of the municipal authorities, join with said city and county of San Francisco in obtaining a common water supply, will not interfere in the slightest particular with the right of the Modesto irrigation district and the Turlock irrigation district to use the natural flow of the Tuolumne River and its branches to the full extent of their claims, as follows: Turlock irrigation district...
Seite 20 - Turlock irrigation districts, for the use of any land owner or owners therein, for pumping subsurface water for drainage or irrigation, any excess of electric power which may be generated, such as may not be used for the water supply herein provided and for the actual municipal purposes of the city and county of San Francisco (which purposes shall not include sale to private persons nor to...
Seite 10 - Francisco and adjacent cities, which may join with it in obtaining a common water supply, may require such further development. As the drainage area tributary to Lake Eleanor will not yield, under the conditions herein imposed, sufficient run-off in dry years to replenish the reservoir, a diverting dam and canal from Cherry Creek to Lake Eleanor reservoir for the conduct of waste flood or extraseasonal waters to said reservoir, is essential for the development of the site to its full capacity, and...
Seite 14 - BO, direct the apportionment and measurement of the water in accordance with the terms of the preceding clauses of this stipulation. " 8. The city and county of San Francisco, when it begins the development of the Hetch Hetchy site, will undertake and vigorously prosecute to completion a dam at least 150 feet high, with a foundation capable of supporting the dam when built to its greatest economic and safe height...
Seite 39 - In the first white outburst at the head there is abundance of visible energy, but it is speedily hushed and concealed in divine repose, and its tranquil progress to the base of the cliff is like that of a downy feather in a still room. Now observe the fineness and marvelous distinctness of the various sun-illumined fabrics into which the water is woven; they sift and float from form to form down the face of that grand gray rock in so leisurely and unconfused a manner that you can examine their texture...
Seite 39 - It is in all its glory in June, when the snow is melting fast, but fades and vanishes toward the end of summer. The only fall I know with which it may fairly be compared is the Yosemite Bridal Veil; but it excels even that favorite fall both in height and airyfairy beauty and behavior.