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	Hetch Hetchy Valley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hetch Hetchy Valley is a glacial valley in Yosemite National Park in California.
		Upstream from the valley lies the Grand Canyon of the Tuolumne.
		On the upper portion of the valley beyond the reservoir there is evidence of relatively young lava flows.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hetch_Hetchy_Valley (713 words)

	The Hetch Hetchy Valley by John Muir (Sierra Club Bulletin, January, 1908)
		The correspondence between the Hetch Hetchy walls in their trends, sculpture, physical structure, and general arrangement of the main rock-masses [and those of the Yosemite Valley] has excited the wondering admiration of every observer.
		Hetch Hetchy is bounded in the same way though its head rock is far less wonderful and sublime in form.
		The first application to the Government by the San Francisco Supervisors for the use of Lake Eleanor and the Hetch Hetchy Valley was made in 1903, and denied December 22nd of that year by the Secretary of the Interior.
	california.sierraclub.org /hetchhetchy/hetch_hetchy_muir_scb_1908.html (2215 words)

	Hetch Hetchy: Time to Redeem a Historic Mistake - Sierra Club
		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.
	www.sierraclub.org /ca/hetchhetchy (700 words)

	Notes on Hetch-Hetchy Valley by Charles F. Hoffmann (1868)
		On the north side of the valley, opposite the granite spur we first have a perpendicular bluff, the top of which is 1,800 feet above the valley; the talc: at the haze is about five hundred feet above the valley, leaving a precipice of about 1,300 feet.
		A singular feature of this valley is the total absence of talus or debris at the base of the bluffs, excepting at one place in front of the falls.
		Hetch Hetchy is a Central Miwok word for a grass with edible seeds that grows in the valley, according to Place Names of the High Sierra by Francis Farquhar.
	www.yosemite.ca.us /library/notes_on_hetch-hetchy_valley.html (1130 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 Valley - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park, central Calif., on the Tuolumne River.
		Hetch Hetchy revival revisited State agencies to investigate the submerged Yosemite National Park valley.(LOCAL NEWS)
		Hetch Hetchy plan feasible, report says: But cost to restore the valley could be much higher than estimated.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-hetchhet.html (353 words)

	2005 Pulitzer Prizes-EDITORIAL WRITING, Works
		The last time the Hetch Hetchy Valley emerged from 300 feet of Sierra water was during the severe drought of 1991.
		The valley that naturalist John Muir championed in the early 20th century was unrecognizable.
		Hetch Hetchy, the smaller twin of Yosemite Valley, might look dead on those occasions, but it's not, according to federal biologists who studied the matter.
	www.pulitzer.org /year/2005/editorial-writing/works/philp6.html (941 words)

	Yosemite Blog » Restore Hetch Hetchy
		That is the provocative question posed by an activist group called Restore Hetch Hetchy, which five years ago launched a spirited but seemingly quixotic campaign to convince the public that the time has come to get rid of the unnatural bone lodged in the valley’s throat.
		As is normal for mountain geology, the floor of Hetch Hetchy valley may be full of sediment due to the sediment load carried by the Tuolumne river and contributing streams.
		SF Gate: “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.
	www.yosemiteblog.com /category/restore-hetch-hetchy (1780 words)

	Hetch Hetchy Restoration Study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		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.
		Construction of the Hetch Hetchy system began in 1914 and O'Shaughnessy Dam was completed in 1923.
		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.
	www.hetchhetchy.water.ca.gov (637 words)

	Hetch Hetchy Indians, Our beautiful Valley, but always left out of the story. \| The Hive
		The inaccessibility of Hetch Hetchy Valley and Mr.
		Not long before that the Valley was a disputed ground between the east and west slope Indians, but the Piutes [Paiutes] from across the range had gotten the upper hand and for years were accustomed to spend some time in Hetch Hetchy in the fall of the year gathering acorns.
		The State Geological Survey visited Hetch Hetchy in 1867, and a description of it was published in the San Francisco Bulletin in October of that year.
	thehive.modbee.com /?q=node/180 (5573 words)

	Hetch Hetchy Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Though, as Whitney says, Hetch Hetchy is not on quite the grand scale of Yosemite, Hetch Hetchy has a beauty and power all its own, and is second only to Yosemite in grandeur.
		Certainly, anyone who visits Hetch Hetchy is dumbfounded that the beauty of this valley was expendable for a mere reservoir, particularly given the many other choices available.
		Even with the dam, Hetch Hetchy has not lost all its beauty, and it could be argued that the dam has at least kept the throngs of tourists from descending upon the valley as they do Yosemite.
	www.sierranevadaphotos.com /gallery/hetch_hetchy/index.asp (278 words)

	LESSONS FROM HETCH HETCHY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Hetch Hetchy Valley was included in the boundary of the 1890 reserve; however private parties held portions of the valley and Stanislaus National Forest to the east under patent The City and County of San Francisco acquired a number of these patents through purchase in 1908.
		The valley east of the spur was a mile and three-quarters long and from an eighth to a third of a mile wide on which grew trees and grasses.
		During periods of scarcity, communities dependent on Hetch Hetchy water have had to conserve water and talk of expanding the system, of finding new sources of water, of controlling population growth and of increasing the cost of water increase.
	members.cox.net /ramero/hetchy.htm (3369 words)

	Phronesisaical: Restoring Hetch Hetchy
		One of the landmarks of the American environmental battle - once having pitted John Muir's (and the nascent Sierra Club's) sense of the intrinsic value of nature against Gifford Pinchot's utilitarianism - is Hetch Hetchy Valley, near Yosemite.
		The valley has lain under 90 metres (nearly 300ft) of water for eight decades and the first task will be to knock down the huge dam that flooded Hetch Hetchy in the first place.
		The valley was once full of savanna and oak and pine forests, with waterfalls and huge cliffs in dramatic colours.
	phronesisaical.blogspot.com /2006/11/restoring-hetch-hetchy.html (409 words)

	Hetch Hetchy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		About twenty miles northwest of the spectacular Yosemite Valley once lay a similar but smaller valley known as the Hetch Hetchy.
		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)

	Hetch Hetchy Dam Debate
		1908 - Muir writes in the Sierra Club Bulletin 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.
		The Taft administration took office, new Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger suspended the Interior Department's approval for the Hetch Hetchy right-of-way.
	www.lcusd.net /lchs/mewoldsen/HetchHetchyDescription.htm (673 words)

	Hetch Hetchy Map
		If the dam is removed people are hoping the valley would slowly return to the way it looked around 1900.
		HETCH HETCHY VALLEY(Flooded) - The floor of the Valley is about three and a half miles long and about 1/2 mile wide on average.
		Imagine the campgrounds in the valley floor if the reservoir was not there.
	www.cccarto.com /Hetch_Hetchy.htm (174 words)

	Hetch Hetchy Valley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Hetch Hetchy Valley is a valley carved by centuries of glaciers and the Tuolumne River.
		However, Hetch Hetchy Valley was within the borders of Yosemite National Park, which was established in 1908.
		Because of a strong force in favor of the plan, Congress passed the Hetch Hetchy Dam bill in 1913.
	web.bryant.edu /~smcdonal/history/1900a.html (113 words)

	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 (441 words)

	Hetchy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Hetch Hetchy is formed by O'Shaugnessy Dam on the Tuolumne River.
		Hetch Hetchy Reservoir provides drinking water to the people of the City of San Francisco and parts of the rest of the bay area.
		Oh, and I happen to work for Hetch Hetchy Water and Power, which is part of the City and County of San Francisco, Public Utilities Commission.
	www.mlode.com /~ggorman/Family_Pics/Hetchy/hetchy.html (109 words)

	Take Action: California to Release Initial Hetch Hetchy Review
		Hetch Hetchy Valley, a twin to the famous Yosemite Valley, was dammed last century.
		Hetch Hetchy Valley can be restored while San Francisco and other communities keep their supply of electricity and high-quality water from the Tuolumne River.
		Hetch Hetchy Valley is one of the world's most spectacular places.
	action.environmentaldefense.org /campaign/hetch_hetchy2/s38w6n245ti6e5 (316 words)

	Hetch Hetchy Power Debacle - Trails Section - Clovis Free Press
		But only when Hetch Hetchy power generation was particularly high, and the needs of Turlock, Modesto, and Permanente were low, would any "dump" power be sold directly to PG&E, and even then, the amounts would be insignificant.
		In fact, Espinoza reports, Hetch Hetchy general manager Larry Klein told Park Service officials in 1992 that the department was not interested in running the system.
		Hetch Hetchy general manager Larry Klein admits to making a "couple errors in judgment": namely, not telling the commission that two losing bidders had protested a disputed scoring process.
	www.clovisnews.com /trails/hetch_hetchy_power.html (7445 words)

	Restore Hetch Hetchy Home Page
		The Schwarzenegger Administration’s new report confirms earlier conclusions by Restore Hetch Hetchy and others that restoration of Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park is feasible and practical, and can be achieved with no harm to San Francisco Bay Area water and power users and Central Valley irrigation districts.
		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 (727 words)

	Welcome to Sierra Heritage Magazine
		Hetch Hetchy has been submerged in nearly 200’ of Bay Area drinking water and fraught with controversy for almost a century.
		Hatchatchie, later changed to Hetch Hetchy, is Native American for an edible seed-bearing plant that flourished in the valley prior to the coming of the great reservoir and dam.
		Standing boldly out from Hetch Hetchy’s south wall is a striking picturesque rock called ‘Kolana’ by the Indians, the outermost of a group 2,300’ high, corresponding with the Cathedral Rocks of Yosemite both in relative position and form.”
	www.sierraheritage.com /coverstory/052206/hetchy.html (1418 words)

	Sierra Club - Hetch Hetchy History (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.umd.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Remembering the loss of Hetch Hetchy, in the 1950s and 1960s, the Sierra club successfully stopped dams from being built in Dinosaur National Monument and in Grand Canyon National Park.
		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).
	california.sierraclub.org.cob-web.org:8888 /hetchhetchy/history.html (402 words)

	Online NewsHour: Environmentalists, City Government Clash over California Dam -- August 12, 2005
		SPENCER MICHELS: This giant dam in the Hetch Hetchy Valley of California's Yosemite National Park is the focal point of a battle between the city of San Francisco, which built the dam nearly a century ago, and environmentalists who want it torn down.
		KEVIN STARR: The Hetch Hetchy comes out of a larger movement in America, in which this country in the early 20th Century laid down the infrastructure of modern America.
		SPENCER MICHELS: Still, limited public access to Hetch Hetchy Valley, and no access to the reservoir because it might pollute the water, has bothered some people, including the Sacramento Bee's Tom Philps, who won a Pulitzer Prize this year for a series of editorials advocating the dam's removal.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/environment/july-dec05/dam_8-12.html (1461 words)

	Should Hetch Hetchy Be Dammed?
		(The Hetch Hetchy was a part of Yosemite National Park.) Students will explore the divisions this controversy exposed within the conservation movement by using teacher-selected documents and text representative of both sides of the debate along with actual records of the Congressional hearings held to decide the valley's fate.
		Introduce this lesson by informing students that they will be re-creating a Congressional debate over the Hetch Hetchy Valley in California's Yosemite National Park, which served to clarify the issues and divide the conservation movement clearly into "preservationist" and "conservationist" camps.
		Form groups focused on the major interests of various parties involved in the Hetch Hetchy controversy: the city of San Francisco, the Sierra Club, Progressive conservationists such as Pinchot, Congressional representatives from other states, and business interests.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/ndlpedu/lessons/97/conser1/lesson2.html (1081 words)

	Paradise Lost!
		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.
		After this is done we are promised a road blasted on the slope of the north wall, where nature-lovers may sit on rustic stools, or rocks, like frogs on logs, to admire the sham dam lake, the grave of Hetch Hetchy.
	www.houstonclimbing.com /HetchHetchy.html (601 words)

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