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Download or read book Hetch Hetchy written by Ray W. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronological history of water use in San Francisco and the city's battle to win control of the Hetch Hetchy Valley, and design, fund, and build the dam and aqueduct
Book Synopsis Hetch Hetchy Project by : Michael Maurice O'Shaughnessy
Download or read book Hetch Hetchy Project written by Michael Maurice O'Shaughnessy and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hetch Hetchy written by Beverly Hennessey and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When water from the Sierra Nevada reached the San Francisco Bay area in 1934, it was greeted by a national celebration after two decades of grueling construction. The Hetch Hetchy Project evolved from a long search for a reliable source of water for San Francisco that began after the 1906 Great Earthquake. Prior to the earthquake, San Francisco had burned to the ground repeatedly due to the lack of water to fight fires. Studies of 14 different sources led to the design of an engineering marvel that conveys water using gravity across California via a complex system of tunnels, reservoirs, pipelines, powerhouses, treatment plants, and dams. But before the Hetch Hetchy Project broke ground, controversy roiled over the project. Finally, the Raker Act was passed by Congress in 1913 and signed by Pres. Woodrow Wilson to permit the use of the rights-of-way for the project. Today, this system serves some of the highest-quality water in the nation to 2.4 million people.
Book Synopsis Hetch Hetchy Water Supply by : San Francisco (Calif.). Bureau of Engineering
Download or read book Hetch Hetchy Water Supply written by San Francisco (Calif.). Bureau of Engineering and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Battle over Hetch Hetchy by : Robert W. Righter
Download or read book The Battle over Hetch Hetchy written by Robert W. Righter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-17 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of the devastating 1906 earthquake and fire, the city of San Francisco desperately needed reliable supplies of water and electricity. Its mayor, James Phelan, pressed for the damming of the Tuolumne River in the newly created Yosemite National Park, setting off a firestorm of protest. For the first time in American history, a significant national opposition arose to defend and preserve nature, led by John Muir and the Sierra Club, who sought to protect what they believed was the right of all Americans to experience natural beauty, particularly the magnificent mountains of the Yosemite region. Yet the defenders of the valley, while opposing the creation of a dam and reservoir, did not intend for it to be maintained as wilderness. Instead they advocated a different kind of development--the building of roads, hotels, and an infrastructure to support recreational tourism. Using articles, pamphlets, and broadsides, they successfully whipped up public opinion against the dam. Letters from individuals began to pour into Congress by the thousands, and major newspapers published editorials condemning the dam. The fight went to the floor of Congress, where politicians debated the value of scenery and the costs of western development. Ultimately, passage of the passage of the Raker Act in 1913 by Congress granted San Francisco the right to flood the Hetch Hetchy Valley. A decade later the O'Shaughnessy Dam, the second largest civil engineering project of its day after the Panama Canal, was completed. Yet conflict continued over the ownership of the watershed and the profits derived from hydroelectrocity. To this day the reservoir provides San Francisco with a pure and reliable source of drinking water and an important source of power. Although the Sierra Club lost this battle, the controversy stirred the public into action on behalf of national parks. Future debates over dams and restoration clearly demonstrated the burgeoning strength of grassroots environmentalism. In a narrative peopled by politicians and business leaders, engineers and laborers, preservationists and ordinary citizens, Robert W. Righter tells the epic story of the first major environmental battle of the twentieth century, which reverberates to this day.
Download or read book Dam! written by John Warfield Simpson and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 2005 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crane with dam in background.
Book Synopsis Hetch Hetchy Project by : Michael Maurice O'Shaughnessy
Download or read book Hetch Hetchy Project written by Michael Maurice O'Shaughnessy and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: General report of the dams, reservoirs, and aqueduct project to bring water from the Hetch Hetchy Valley in the Sierra Nevada Mountains to San Francisco. It described the construction, dams, elevation changes, tunnels, electric power system, and finance. With elevation graphs.
Book Synopsis The Hetch Hetchy Water Supply and Power Project of San Francisco by : Michael Maurice O'Shaughnessy
Download or read book The Hetch Hetchy Water Supply and Power Project of San Francisco written by Michael Maurice O'Shaughnessy and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Battle Over Hetch Hetchy by : Robert W. Righter
Download or read book The Battle Over Hetch Hetchy written by Robert W. Righter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-03-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Book Synopsis Hetch Hetchy: A History in Documents by : Char Miller
Download or read book Hetch Hetchy: A History in Documents written by Char Miller and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1913, President Woodrow Wilson signed legislation approving the construction of the O’Shaughnessy Dam to inundate the Hetch Hetchy Valley inside Yosemite National Park. This decision concluded a decade-long, highly contentious debate over the dam-and-reservoir complex to supply water to post-earthquake San Francisco, a battle that was dramatic, unsettling, and consequential. Hetch Hetchy: A History in Documents captures the tensions animating the long-running controversy and places them in their historical context. Key to understanding the debate is the prior and violent dispossession of Indigenous Nations from the valley they had stewarded for thousands of years. Their removal by the mid-nineteenth century enabled white elite tourism to take over, setting the stage for the subsequent debate for and against the dam in the early twentieth century. That debate contained a Faustian bargain: to secure an essential water supply for San Francisco meant the destruction of the valley that John Muir and others praised so highly. This contentious situation continues to reverberate, as interest groups now battle over whether to tear down the dam and restore the valley. Hetch Hetchy remains a dramatic flashpoint in American environmental culture.
Book Synopsis Hetch Hetchy Valley by : United States. Advisory Board of Army Engineers
Download or read book Hetch Hetchy Valley written by United States. Advisory Board of Army Engineers and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hetch Hetchy and Its Dam Railroad by : Ted Wurm
Download or read book Hetch Hetchy and Its Dam Railroad written by Ted Wurm and published by Howell-North Books, Incorporated. This book was released on 1973 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Benefits Accruing from the Hetch Hetchy Project, San Francisco Water Supply by : Nelson Andrew Eckart
Download or read book Benefits Accruing from the Hetch Hetchy Project, San Francisco Water Supply written by Nelson Andrew Eckart and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Year in the National Parks by : Stefanie Payne
Download or read book A Year in the National Parks written by Stefanie Payne and published by . This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On January 1 of 2016, Stefanie Payne, a creative professional working at NASA Headquarters, and Jonathan Irish, a photographer with National Geographic, left their lives in Washington, D.C. and hit the open road on an expedition to explore and document all 59 of America's national parks during the centennial celebration of the U.S. National Park Service - 59 parks in 52 weeks - the Greatest American Road Trip. Captured in more than 300,000 digital photographs, written stories, and videos shared by the national and international media, their project resulted in an incredible view of America's National Park System seen in its 100th year. 'A Year in the National Parks, The Greatest American Road Trip' is a gorgeous visual journey through our cherished public lands, detailing a rich tapestry of what makes each park special, as seen along an epic journey to visit them all within one special celebratory year.
Book Synopsis Safety Practices in Tunneling Operations at the Hetch Hetchy Water-supply Project, City and County of San Francisco, Calif by : Simon Harry Ash
Download or read book Safety Practices in Tunneling Operations at the Hetch Hetchy Water-supply Project, City and County of San Francisco, Calif written by Simon Harry Ash and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Yosemite written by John Muir and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-17 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Yosemite" by John Muir. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Book Synopsis The Newlands Project by : William Joe Simonds
Download or read book The Newlands Project written by William Joe Simonds and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
