Re: PAW - Hetch Hetchy Valley
- From: Bob Adler <rgacpa@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leica@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 09:51:53 -0700 (PDT)
Mark,
Thanks for the history; I never knew all that!
I really like the first Wapama Falls shot:
http://www.mountain-and-desert.com/California/Yosemite/DLC-YS-HETCH0002-5.htm
You can feel the power of both the rock and the water
as they vie against each other. Wonderful!
Thanks for sharing,
Bob
--- Mark Bohrer <lurchl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> After paying over $400 million to repair
> fire-ravaged San Francisco
> following the 1906 earthquake, the city redoubled
> its efforts to find a
> reliable water supply. The Federal government
> granted San Francisco the
> right to dam Hetch Hetchy Valley in 1908 after the
> city exhausted most
> other possibilities. The city built the Hetch Hetchy
> Railroad to transport
> some of the building materials to the dam site in
> western Yosemite National
> Park, and finished building the original
> O'Shaughnessy Dam in 1923. Ronald
> Reagan's Interior Secretary Donald Hodel proposed
> removing the dam in 1987.
>
> I spent an enjoyable Saturday walking into Hetch
> Hetchy Valley as far as
> booming Wapama Falls this weekend. The reservoir has
> made this the least
> visited area of Yosemite. I found myself preferring
> the reservoir's quiet
> to Yosemite Valley's maelstrom of tourists, though
> the reservoir looks
> unnatural after you see J.N. LeConte's pre-dam
> pictures:
>
http://california.sierraclub.org/hetchhetchy/requiem_for_hetch_hetchy.html.
> Enjoying the quiet first-hand only confused me
> further over how I feel
> about what many of us have called 'that damn dam'.
>
> Hetch Hetchy looks like this today:
> http://tinyurl.com/9g6ub
>
> All comments welcome.
>
> Mark Bohrer
> Mountain and Desert Photography
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