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	History of Hetch Hetchy Valley - Restore Hetch Hetchy -
		In 1901, the John Muir led the Sierra Club and a group of civic and conservation organizations in a campaign to protect the Hetch Hetchy Valley, a part of Yosemite National Park, from being filled by a reservoir.
		Although John Muir lost that battle, the loss of Hetch Hetchy served to awaken the nation in defense of its national parks.
		Remembering the loss of Hetch Hetchy, in the 1950s and 1960s, the conservationists successfully stopped dams from being built in Dinosaur National Monument and in Grand Canyon National Park.
	www.hetchhetchy.org /history.html (431 words)

	Preserve Hetch Hetchy Bay Area Council
		While draining Hetch Hetchy may not be a viable option, there are many and numerous opportunities to restore and improve environmental quality without harming public health or the economy.
		To protect Hetch Hetchy Reservoir is not to be hostile to environmental quality; it is to be honest and rational about the importance of water to the Bay Area.
		Hetch Hetchy provides one of the cleanest sources of water and cleanest sources of electricity in California.
	www.bayareacouncil.org /siteapps/advocacy/index.aspx?c=dkLRK7MMIqG&b=251761&action=1418&template=x.ascx (954 words)

	Hetch Hetchy Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Hetch Hetchy Valley is a glacial valley in Yosemite National Park in California.
		The Hetch Hetchy Road drops into the valley at the O'Shaughnessy Dam, but all points east of there are roadless, and accessible only to hikers and equestrians.
		The valley was called 'Hetch Hetchy' as early as the 1860s.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/Hetch-Hetchy-Valley.htm (530 words)

	Hetch Hetchy
		Hetch Hetchy Reservoir (Wilderness Press 15-Minute Map Series) - I generally don't like 15-minute maps, but if you use one for hiking, these are a good bet.
		Hetch Hetchy Reservoir was formed in the early 1900's, after the City of San Francisco constructed O'Shaugnessy dam across Hetch Hetchy Valley and connected it to San Francisco via an aqueduct.
		Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy Valleys were borne of similar geologic circumstance, in the flat, sediment-filled zones near the terminus of the glaciers descending the Merced and Tuolumne River watersheds, respectively.
	sepwww.stanford.edu /sep/morgan/adventures/yosemite/trips1999/hetch_hetchy.html (992 words)

	Hetch Hetchy Restoration Study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Hetch Hetchy supplies an average of 220 million gallons per day of exceptionally high-quality water to over 2.4 million people in the San Francisco Bay Area, and generates an annual average of 1.7 billion kilowatt-hours hydroelectricity.
		Although Hetch Hetchy is not a state-owned or operated facility, changes to the system would have impacts on California's natural resource management activities and responsibilities, including water and energy supplies, ecosystem impacts, water quality, recreational and economic considerations.
		The Hetch Hetchy System supplies 220 million gallons per day to over 2.4 million people in San Francisco, on the San Francisco Peninsula, in Santa Clara Valley, and Alameda County.
	hetchhetchy.water.ca.gov (403 words)

	Restoring Hetch Hetchy \| Organic Matter
		Back in November the Schwarzenegger administration gave the go-ahead to an assessment examining the feasibility of restoring Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park, which was dammed and flooded in the beginning of the 20th century to provide water and power to the city of San Francisco.
		This photo of the O’Shaughnessy Dam at Hetch Hetchy Reservoir was taken by David Cross in July, 1987.
		...Hetch Hetchy, far from being a plain, common, rock-bound meadow, as many who have no seen it seem to suppose, is a grand landscape garden, one of Nature’s rarest and most precious mountain temples.
	www.organicmatter.net /node/58 (647 words)

	Hetch Hetchy Reservoir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, a source of drinking water for San Francisco, is also home to spectacular scenery and is the starting point for many less-used back-country trails.
		Hetch Hetchy Reservoir is located 40 miles from Yosemite Valley via Highway 120 and Evergreen and Hetch Hetchy Roads.
		Although the road to Hetch Hetchy is open year-round, it may close periodically due to snow in winter and spring.
	www.byways.org /browse/byways/2302/places/12966 (184 words)

	John Muir, San Francisco and the story of Hetch Hetchy
		Hetch Hetchy valley is in Yosemite National Park, about 190 miles east of San Francisco in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
		Hetch Hetchy proponents were quick to use the conflagration as proof of the necessity of new water supplies for San Francisco
		She was convinced to do this by Congressman Tony Coelho (who resigned under a cloud during the SandL crisis of the late 1980s), who had threatened to re-open the Raker Act scandal in a congressional committee, which could possibly lead to the Federal government seizing the dam and its power and revenue.
	www.shapingsf.org /ezine/ecology/hetchy.html (1950 words)

	History - Hetch Hetchy - Sierra Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The battle for Hetch Hetchy was perhaps the first effort at what is now known as "grassroots lobbying," getting individual citizens to contact elected officials in support of or opposition to legislation.
		The Hetch Hetchy Valley, California, undated painting by Albert Bierstadt (fl and white).
		Study for "The Hetch Hetchy Valley, California" painting by Albert Bierstadt (fl and white).
	www.sierraclub.org /ca/hetchhetchy/history.asp (501 words)

	Hetch Hetchy Valley, Chapter 16 of 'The Yosemite' by John Muir (1912) - John Muir Writings
		Hetch Hetchy is bounded in the same way though its head rock is incomparably less wonderful and sublime in form.
		It appears, therefore, that Hetch Hetchy Valley, far from being a plain, common, rock-bound meadow, as many who have not seen it seem to suppose, is a grand landscape garden, one of Nature’s rarest and most precious mountain temples.
		Should Hetch Hetchy be submerged for a reservoir, as proposed, not only would it be utterly destroyed, but the sublime cañon way to the heart of the High Sierra would be hopelessly blocked and the great camping ground, as the watershed of a city drinking system, virtually would be closed to the public.
	www.yosemite.ca.us /john_muir_writings/the_yosemite/chapter_16.html (2064 words)

	Environmental Defense
		Hetch Hetchy lies beneath 300 feet of water, the result of San Francisco's damming the valley in the 1920s to create a giant water storage tank for the Bay Area.
		Hetch Hetchy Valley lies along the western slope of the Sierra Nevada mountains, 160 miles east of San Francisco and 3,700 feet above sea level.
		The loss of Hetch Hetchy devastated John Muir (who had long fought to safeguard it) and mobilized a new generation of conservationists, determined to protect natural treasures that are too precious to lose.
	www.environmentaldefense.org /hetchhetchy/article.cfm?contentID=3907 (922 words)

	Hetch Hetchy Hearing - 1908
		Hetch Hetchy lies in a northwesterly direction from Yosemite at a distance of about 18 miles, and is now easily accessible by a trail and wagon road from the Big Oak Flat road at Sequoia.
		Hetch Hetchy weather is delightful and invigorating all the year.
		Hetch Hetchy Valley is admitted to be a natural wonder, but little inferior to the Yosemite proper, while the Tuolumne Canyon, through which flows and plunges the main river from the great mountain meadows at Soda Springs, is one of the big natural features of the Sierra and of the park.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hetch/hetchy8.html (5039 words)

	Restore Hetch Hetchy Home Page
		Restore Hetch Hetchy Appluads Bipartisan Agreement to Study Hetch Hetchy Restoration
		Restore Hetch Hetchy applauds the response by Governor Schwarzenegger's Administration to the request by two Democratic legislators to undertake a comprehensive study of the costs and benefits of restoring Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park.
		The nearly 100-year-old Hetch Hetchy water delivery system for the San Francisco Bay Area is unreliable and in need of multi-billion-dollar repairs for seismic upgrades and water quality improvements.
	www.hetchhetchy.org (531 words)

	The Inyo Register (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Hetch Hetchy restorers would not have to contend with a problem that has confounded plans to restore other inundated canyons and valleys: massive sediment loads.
		Because Hetch Hetchy drains a pristine granite basin, analysts think there would be little if any sediment.
		To a large extent n except perhaps for a crumbling fang of the old dam left at the head of the valley n there would be little evidence that the Hetch Hetchy had ever been flooded.
	www.inyoregister.com /articles/2005/01/04/news/3new01.txt (1272 words)

	Hetch Hetchy: Time to Redeem a Historic Mistake - Sierra Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Mention Hetch Hetchy Valley to long-time Sierra Club members and their response is immediate: a heartfelt feeling of deep sadness for what has been lost, and a fervent hope that what has been lost can somehow be regained.
		Hetch Hetchy Valley, in the Grand Canyon of the Tuolulmne River, should be restored to its natural condition in order to allow "one of nature's rarest and most precious mountain temples" to be available for public enjoyment, to be reintegrated into its natural ecological and biological systems, and to provide for scientific exploration.
		In addition, Hetch Hetchy Valley should be restored in order to preserve the integrity and inviolate status of our National Parks.
	california.sierraclub.org /hetchhetchy (700 words)

	Hetch Hetchy Quotes
		"[Hetch Hetchy] valley, carved out of the Sierras by glaciers and the Tuolumne River, had become part of Yosemite National Park in 1890 and been designated a 'wilderness preserve.'.
		Hetch Hetchy, the second largest municipal water system in the state and an engineering marvel, is his monument." Carl Nolte, "Hetch Hetchy at 60 is Still Causing Controversy," San Francisco Chronicle, October 27, 19994, ppl.
		One is that despite the progressives' arguments for public power, the electricity from the Hetch Hetchy hydro plant was sold by San Francisco to PGandE [Pacific Gas and Electric], which still distributes it.
	www.cnr.berkeley.edu /departments/espm/env-hist/espm160/assignments/hetch_hetchy/hetch_qts.htm (739 words)

	More Big Wall Obscurities for Yosemite, Hetch Hetchy, Zion, and Souther Sierra :: SuperTopo Rock Climbing Discussion ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		I think the argument was that because Hetch Hetchy has been obscure for so long that it should remain that way and the best way to do that is to keep these topos harder to find.
		Hetch Hetchy may see more climbing traffic after more accurate information about routes is easily available, but i doubt it will increase that much...relative to the Valley that is. i agree that any climbing area near a road is not really that obscure...
		Well, speaking as someone who was toying with the idea of making a Hetch Hetchy ascent her first big wall route, I am pleased that there's beta out there for me. Thanks for posting it, Chris.
	www.supertopo.com /climbing/thread.html?m=29489&f=0&b=0 (5047 words)

	"Dam Hetch Hetchy!": John Muir Contests the Hetch-Hetchy Dam
		The Progressive Era’s most controversial environmental issue was the 1908–1913 struggle over federal government approval for building the Hetch Hetchy dam in a remote corner of federally-owned land in California’s Yosemite National Park.
		At Congressional hearings on Hetch Hetchy held in 1913, supporters of the plan like Gifford Pinchot, the first Chief Forester of the United States and a noted environmentalist, argued that conservation of natural resources was best achieved through management of the wilderness.
		Hetch Hetchy Valley, far from being a plain, common, rock-bound meadow, as many who have not seen it seem to suppose, is a grand landscape garden, one of Nature’s rarest and most precious mountain temples.
	historymatters.gmu.edu /d/5720 (528 words)

	HETCH HETCHY RESERVOIR / To drain or not to drain / Next months key in debate on state's epic environmental issue
		The debate over the proposal to breach the Sierra's O'Shaughnessy Dam, drain the reservoir behind it and restore Hetch Hetchy Valley to its former natural splendor is apt to intensify this summer with the release of a California Department of Water Resources study on the issue.
		Hetch Hetchy supplies about 20 percent of the city's electrical energy, as well as providing some municipal revenues.
		Ron Good, the executive director of Restore Hetch Hetchy, an ad hoc group dedicated to draining the reservoir, noted PUC representatives have said Hetch Hetchy Valley is not at all comparable to Yosemite Valley -- that it is smaller, and was carpeted with marshes and fens prior to inundation.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/06/13/BAGIOD7JHK1.DTL (1314 words)

	everyone else is doing it...: Another side of Yosemite: Hetch Hetchy
		Yeah, I know that I was just there, but we spent most of our time at Hetch Hetchy instead of in the valley.
		Hetch Hetchy is where San Francisco gets its drinking water from.
		Hetch Hetchy itself is kind of like Yosemite Valley full of water.
	lostworld.pair.com /blog/archives/000660.html (687 words)

	Virtual Guidebook to Yosemite - Hetch Hetchy Valley
		On the north shore of Hetch Hetchy Reservoir.
		The Hetch Hetchy trail follows a broad ledge along the north shore.
		A panoramic view of Hetch Hetchy from the high point of the north shore trail.
	www.virtualguidebooks.com /CentralCalif/Yosemite/HetchHetchyTrail/HetchHetchyTrail_TOC.html (99 words)

	Hetch Hetchy Hearing - 1908
		One set lies in the floor of the Hetch Hetchy Valley and constitutes the greater portion of the area of that floor.
		The Hetch Hetchy is surrounded by lands in brown, and the legend shows you the two types of land owned by the city.
		That area is something in the neighborhood of 600 acres, and constitutes the greater portion of the floor of the Hetch Hetchy Valley.
	www.sfmuseum.org /hetch/hetchy1.html (1941 words)

	Paradise Lost!
		Almost a 100 years ago our government allowed the greed of a few individuals to destroy one of the worlds greatest treasures, Hetch Hetchy Valley, considered to be "a grand landscape garden, one of Nature's rarest and most precious mountain temples" - paradise on earth if there is such a thing.
		Hetch Hetchy Valley was dammed, ruining all of its pristine wilderness, booming waterfalls and drowning its towering granite cliffs.
		Their goal is to find a "win-win" proposition for the removal of the O'Shaughnessy Dam and see to it that the Hetch Hetchy Valley is allowed to complete its 100+ year process of restoration to its original grandeur.
	www.houstonclimbing.com /HetchHetchy.html (601 words)

	Giving a Dam: Congress Debates Hetch Hetchy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Raker (H. 112) to grant the Hetch Hetchy and Lake Eleanor Valleys to San Francisco for reservoir purposes.
		The opponents of the Hetch Hetchy scheme maintain that their position is not inimical to the true interests of San Francisco.
		It has not been demonstrated that Hetch Hetchy is the only available source, but only that it might be the cheapest.
	www.historymatters.gmu.edu /d/5721 (3402 words)

	Timeline - Hetch Hetchy - Sierra Club (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		that to dam Hetchy Hetchy one "may as well dam for water-tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man." Nonetheless, the City's permit was approved by the Interior Department.
		Eighty-six percent of the voters in San Francisco authorize the Hetch Hetchy project and to provide $600,000 to purchase the "lands, rights, and claims" of Hetchy Hetchy.
		study is accompanied by a new campaign and a virtual tour of Hetch Hetchy, narrated by John Muir himself.
	www.sierraclub.org /ca/hetchhetchy/timeline.asp (1182 words)

	Hetch Hetchy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		After considering several possibilities, they selected the waters of the Tuolumne River and decided to build a dam across the river to form a reservoir in the Hetch Hetchy Valley.
		Muir said that the flooding of the Hetch Hetchy would be like destroying one of nature's great cathedrals.
		Today the Hetch Hetchy provides San Franciscans with about 85 percent of their water.
	www.californiahistory.net /8_pages/land_hetch.htm (230 words)

	California State Senate Republican Caucus
		Recently, environmentalists have renewed their efforts to tear down the Hetch Hetchy dam, and restore the Valley to the greatness that it once was.
		Replacing Hetch Hetchy would not just require the re-operation of dams at New Don Pedro Reservoir; we need that to happen IN ADDITION to maintaining the capacity of Hetch Hetchy.
		The clean electricity produced at Hetch Hetchy serves as 17% of the power supply for the Turlock Irrigation District (TID), not to mention the electricity sold to the Modesto Irrigation District (MID).
	republican.sen.ca.gov /opeds/12/oped2410_print.asp (462 words)

	SFWATER.ORG : Organization Detail: Hetch Hetchy Water and Power (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Hetch Hetchy Water and Power system is a conglomerate of dams, hydroelectric plants, reservoirs, aqueducts, pipelines and transmission lines operated by the SFPUC which provide drinking water to the City of San Francisco and several Bay Area counties.
		Hetch Hetchy Water and Power provides reliable, high quality water and electric energy to the City and County of San Francisco and other customers, protects watershed resources in cooperation with federal agencies, operates and maintains facilities to a high standard of safety and reliability, and maximizes revenue opportunities within approved levels of risk.
		Hetch Hetchy Water and Power also strives to promote diversity and the health, safety and professional development of its employees.
	sfwater.org /orgDetail.cfm/MO_ID/20 (1358 words)

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