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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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f which16.79 square miles are situated in AlamedaCounty, and 122.69 square miles in SantaClara County. With the exception of Cala- veras Valley the country is extremely pre-cipitous, unfit for cultivation, and coveredfor the greater part with dense masses ofchamisal, interspersed with forests of pineand oak. The hills bordering the San JoseValley directly east, consist of sandstone onlyslightly metamorphic and contain numerousfossils, mostly in a bad state of preservation,sufficient, however, to fix the age as tertiary.Passing easterly after crossing the valley atits easterly base, there is a region of highlymetamorphic rock, which in places might betermed slate. On the easterly side of this isa deep valley (the site for reservoir), andcrossing this one strikes Calaveras Creek andridge, which leads to the summit of Mt.Hamilton, located centrally within the Cala-veras watershed, in a direction nearly trans-verse to the main chain, or northeast andsouthwest. This ridge is of metamorphic
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Spring Valleys Sunol Aqueduct, with a capacity of seventy million gallons daily, will carry Calaveras water down beautiful Niles Canyon. In this span, art goes hand in hand with engineering, and the nobility of the landscape suffers no hurt 12 SAN FRANCISCO WATER January, 1925

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  • bookyear:1922
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  • bookauthor:Spring_Valley_Water_Company__San_Francisco__Calif__
  • booksubject:Water_supply
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  • booksponsor:California_State_Library_Califa_LSTA_Grant
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  • bookcollection:americana
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