Two of the measures are coming before voters now because of the city's failure to maintain the aqueduct. The third stems from political objections to the use of Hetch Hetchy hydropower as a ...

Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct: Big Fixes for Big Quakes (KQED) VIDEO: Hetch Hetchy: To Restore or Not (KQED) His dad, Heath, then asks how they figured out that number. “Did you send like some kind of a probe ...

Hetch Hetchy opponents will use provisions of federal ... from the Cherry and Eleanor reservoirs into the San Francisco aqueduct and the construction of a diversion point for San Francisco along ...

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission has been slow beefing up security along the Hetch Hetchy aqueduct to guard the regionally vital water system against terrorism, vandalism and theft ...

But if Hetch Hetchy water is the “birthright” of San Franciscans ... double down and tout the “amazing engineering feat” of the O’Shaughnessy Dam and aqueduct system. Funny, neither he nor any other ...

The Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct has also become a source of hydroelectric power that would also need to be replaced, he said, adding that the SFPUC had spent the last eight years modernizing it.

Search to the rescue: [ Pulgas water temple ] Reveals that this is stone temple-shaped building that commemorates the completion (in 1934) of the Hetch Hetchy aqueduct. A ha! Here's a connection ...

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is aiming to tap a local source of drinking water for the first time since the 1930s, when the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir and aqueduct system began operating.

That includes Hetch Hetchy in Yosemite National Park, which will likely reach capacity if we get more storms this winter. Visitors might still need chains to get down Evergreen Road this time of ...