Application For Lake Eleanor And Hetch Hetchy Valley Reservoir Sites Act Of February 15 1901

Author : U. S. Department of the Interior
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334971198
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book Water Supply, City of San Francisco written by U. S. Department of the Interior and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-10 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Water Supply, City of San Francisco: Application for Lake Eleanor and Hetch Hetchy Valley Reservoir Sites, Act of February 15, 1901 This is the so-called revocable permit act, under which rights of way for electrical plants, transmission lines, canals, ditches, and reservoirs are permitted through the public lands and forest reserva tions of the United States. The only national parks to which it applies are the Yosemite, Sequoia, and General Grant National Parks, in the State of California. The act was passed on February 15, 1901. On October 15, 1901, the city of San Francisco, through the Hon. James D. Phelan, then mayor, filed an application for reservoir rights of way at Lake Eleanor and Hetch Hetchy. After considera tion of this application, Hon. E. A. Hitchcock, then Secretary of the Interior, on December 22, 1903, refused the permit on the principal ground that he did not have the necessary statutory authority. He discussed the existing and available water supplies of the city of San Francisco, and upon the information then before him, held that there were other adequate sources of supply available; but the con trolling consideration for his refusal of the permit was the construe tion placed by him upon the two acts of Congress above mentioned. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.