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Identifier: sanfrancwat4192581930spri (find matches)
Title: San Francisco water
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Spring Valley Water Company (San Francisco, Calif.)
Subjects: Water-supply
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Spring Valley Water Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant

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and then unload it and haul it toits ultimate destination on motor-trucks orwagons. In this particular case it was pos-sible to unload the pipe directly from the carsinto the trench which had been prepared toreceive it. A small derrick, which was so ar-ranged that it could move under its ownpower, was loaded on the last car of a train- load of pipe. The train was moved along therailroad beside the trench and the derrickplaced the pipe-lengths in the trench wherethey were put together. The derrick itself, asfast as it unloaded a car, would move ahead,taking a position on the car which had justbeen unloaded in order to remove the pipeon the next car ahead. So far as the writer knows, this is the firsttime it has been possible to place pipe on carsat the point of manufacture and unload itdirectly into the position in which it is tobe used. As soon as the construction now under wayby the city is completed, the additional waterdeveloped by Calaveras Reservoir will beused in San Francisco.
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Rolled clay core of Calaveras Dam undemateria ruction. This core, which is suiw completed to a height of 21 he embankments of rocky SAN FRANCISCO WATER January, 1925 AS early as the fas this city was considering the advisability of bringing itsJ~\. water supply under municipal ownership. The rich possibilities of water development in the Calaveras Valley acrossthe bay were realized by the citys engineers, and there was talk of the citybuying that property. Nevertheless, there were short-sighted critics who said that it was folly togo so far away from San Francisco for more water, and when Spring Valley,in 1875, acquired the first of its Calaveras holdings, these critics scoffed. Today there would be no way of solving San Franciscos immediate waterneeds if it were not for this foresighted acquisition of the Calaveras lands. Today Calaveras, which the city talked about acquiring in the yos, is thescene of a striking co-operation between the city of San Francisco and SpringValley Water C

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