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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
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The spillway of Calaveras Dam is now completed. It had reached the above stage of construction in September,1924. The top of the dam is seen on the skyline
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Calaveras Dam of Spring Valley Waterlike that on the cover of San Fra any carried to a height of 215 feet above its foundation. This view,Water, shows the berm construction of the down-stream slope January, 1925 SAN FRANCISCO WATER 11 water stored with head and force sufficientto flow by gravitation to the distributingreservoir in the city of San Francisco. The Calaveras reservoir would be tappedat its westerly side by means of an outlettunnel, perforating the hills lying betweenthe Calaveras Valley and San Jose Valley;the water drawn thence would flow in awrought-iron conduit 60 inches diameter,and 45.58 miles in length to the Rock Creekor main distributing reservoir in San Fran-cisco. The area of the watershed of CalaverasCreek above the point selected for the em-bankment, is 101.28 square miles; of theArroyo Hondo, 38.20 square miles; totalwatershed, 139.48 square miles, of which16.79 square miles are situated in AlamedaCounty, and 122.69 square miles in SantaClara County. With the

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  • bookyear:1922
  • bookdecade:1920
  • bookcentury:1900
  • bookauthor:Spring_Valley_Water_Company__San_Francisco__Calif__
  • booksubject:Water_supply
  • bookpublisher:San_Francisco__Calif____Spring_Valley_Water_Co_
  • bookcontributor:San_Francisco_Public_Library
  • booksponsor:California_State_Library_Califa_LSTA_Grant
  • bookleafnumber:17
  • bookcollection:americana
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