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Hetch Hetchy is a valley, reservoir, and water system in California in the United States. The glacial Hetch Hetchy Valley lies in the northwestern part of Yosemite National Park and is drained by the Tuolumne River .
O'Shaughnessy Dam is a 430-foot-high (131 m) concrete arch-gravity dam in Tuolumne County, California, United States.It impounds the Tuolumne River, forming the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir at the lower end of Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park, about 160 miles (260 km) east of San Francisco. [6]
The current lake was formed in 1918 by damming Eleanor Creek as part of the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir system, [2] constructed to supply water and power to the city of San Francisco. The original smaller, natural lake was also named "Eleanor" [2] after the daughter of Josiah Whitney, leader of the California Geological Survey in the 1860s.
The largest single reservoir in California is Shasta Lake, with a full volume of more than 4,552,000 acre-feet (5.615 km 3). ... Hetch Hetchy Reservoir: Tuolumne
Falls Creek, also known as the Falls River, [2] is a tributary of the Tuolumne River in Yosemite National Park, California, United States.The creek begins at the northern boundary of the national park and flows 24 miles (39 km) [1] to empty into the Tuolumne at Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, dropping over two well-known waterfalls.
Moccasin Dam is a small dam on Moccasin Creek in Tuolumne County, California, in the town of Moccasin, west of Yosemite.It holds the Moccasin Reservoir.The dam, reservoir and associated hydroelectric power plant are part of the Hetch Hetchy Project, which provide water and power to the city of San Francisco.
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), of which Hetch Hetchy Water and Power is a division, provided about 45% of the funds for construction of the 1971 New Don Pedro Dam and so has the right to store 570,000 acre-feet (700,000,000 m 3) of water in the reservoir.
The Pulgas Water Temple is a stone structure in Redwood City, California, United States, designed by architect William G. Merchant.It was erected by the San Francisco Water Department to commemorate the 1934 completion of the Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct and is located at the aqueduct's terminus; originally water flowed through a vault under the temple itself, but new requirements for treatment ...