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The Hetch Hetchy Valley began as a V-shaped river canyon cut out by the ancestral Tuolumne River. About one million years ago, the extensive Sherwin glaciation widened, deepened and straightened river valleys along the western slope of the Sierra Nevada, including Hetch Hetchy, Yosemite Valley, and Kings Canyon farther to the south. [12]
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O'Shaughnessy Dam and spillway at Hetch Hetchy (2016) O'Shaughnessy Dam, which impounds the water at Hetch Hetchy, is named for the longtime city engineer. [9] Glen Canyon Park and winding O'Shaughnessy Blvd are centered in this 2010 aerial photo, view facing east. In the lower left are the track & field for Ruth Asawa School.
In 1905, when the city of San Francisco lobbied Congress to allow it to dam the Hetch Hetchy Valley to provide the growing city with water, Muir and Colby were leaders of the campaign to prevent the damming of the Tuolumne River and the flooding of the valley. Colby called the valley "the indispensable entrance and exit to the Grand Canyon of ...
A short way below the Muir Gorge, the Grand Canyon widens again, much as it does at Glen Aulin, though here it is deeper. This broad plain bears the name of "Pate Valley." Some 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) below here, Hetch Hetchy Reservoir (created by O’Shaughnessy Dam) claims the Tuolumne River.
Less crowded than Yosemite Valley, whose roads have been choked with visitors, Hetch Hetchy Valley is a half-forgotten realm filled with granite walls, tall falls and wildflowers.
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Track Bus No. 19 is a motorized rail car built on a White Motor Company standard truck chassis. It was built by Thomson-Graf-Edler in 1919 for the Hetch Hetchy Railroad and used as an ambulance to transport sick, injured or dead workers, and to carry passengers. [2]