Water and power for San Francisco from Hetch-Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park — John Shaqi
Water and power for San Francisco from Hetch-Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National ParkVilas, Martin Samuel
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Water and power for San Francisco from Hetch-Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park
Vilas, Martin Samuel
Hetch Hetchy Valley (Calif.); Water-supply -- California -- San Francisco
“That for and in consideration of the grant by the United
States as provided for in this act, the said grantee shall be
required to assign free of cost to the United States all roads
and trails built under the provisions hereof; and, further,
after the expiration of five years from the passage of this act
the grantee shall be required to pay to the United States the
sum of $15,000 annually for a period of ten years, beginning
with the expiration of the five-year period before mentioned,
and for the remainder of the term of the grant, shall, unless
otherwise provided by Congress, pay the sum of $30,000
annually, said sums to be paid on the 1st day of July of each
year. Said sums shall be kept in a separate fund by the United
States, to be applied to the building and maintenance of roads
and trails and other improvements in the Yosemite National
Park and other national parks in the State of California. The
Secretary of the Interior shall designate the uses to be made
of sums paid under the provisions of this section, under the
conditions specified herein.”
The sanitary regulations are strict under this bill. No offal or refuse
can be placed “in the waters of any reservoir or stream or within 300
feet thereof within the watershed above and around said reservoir sites.”
A filtration plant may be installed at the discretion of the grantee.
[Illustration: Lake Eleanor as it now is.]
[Illustration: The Lake Eleanor Dam Site.
The American City.]
Section 9 provides:
“That the said grantee shall recognize the prior rights of the
Modesto irrigation district and the Turlock irrigation district
as now constituted under the laws of the State of California,
or as said districts may be hereafter enlarged to contain in
the aggregate not to exceed 300,000 acres of land to receive
2350 second feet of the natural daily flow of the Tuolumne
River, measured at the La Grange dam, whenever the same can be
beneficially used by said irrigation districts; and that the
grantee shall never interfere with said rights.”
The last of section 9 provides:
“That at such time as the aggregate daily natural flow of
the watershed of the Tuolumne and its tributaries, measured
at the La Grange dam shall be less than said districts can
beneficially use and less than 2350 second feet, then and in
that event the said grantee shall release, free of charge, the
entire natural daily flow of the streams which it has under
this grant intercepted.”
Proviso is also made that if the lower irrigation districts desire more
than the usual amount they may have it up to a certain quantity by paying
a rate fixed by the Secretary of the Interior.
Under section 9 other provisions are:
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