About Pulgas Water Temple
KQED's QUEST is a multimedia series about the people behind San Francisco Bay Area science and environmental issues and how their work is changing the way we live.
Share and discuss your photos of Pulgas Water Temple with us, and we will link to them in one of our web-based science hikes under the " Visitor's Photos" tab:
See the Pulgas Water Temple Exploration on the KQED QUEST website.
FYI - it may take a few hours for your photos to be linked from KQED's QUEST website. Thanks for contributing!
About Pulgas Water Temple
The San Francisco Peninsula Watershed, managed by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, is home to trails that offer access to remote wilderness, Northern California geology, and opportunities to appreciate the complexity of providing 2.4 million people with a clean water supply.
San Francisco built Pulgas Water Temple as a monument to the engineering marvel that brought Hetch Hetchy water more than 160 miles across California from the Sierra Nevada Mountains to the Bay Area. The Hetch Hetchy Project had taken 24 years to build through the Great Depression at a cost of $102 million.
In 1909, with memories of the ‘06 earthquake’s unquenchable fires still vivid, the city of San Francisco purchased land in the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park with the intention to dam the Tuolomie river. The next year, the city voted to build the dam and a 160-mile-long system to carry the water from the mountains to the San Andreas valley, and in 1913 Congress allowed the construction. The effort expended was enormous: $45 million dollars, twenty years of construction, a few deaths and a great deal of politics. In 1934, the first rush of Hetch Hetchy water flowed through the gravity-driven tunnel system, across the California’s central valley. It swooshed through the base of the Pulgas Water Temple and into nearby Crystal Springs reservoir while San Franciscans cheered, and some conservationists frowned.
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