San Francisco water . d thatthe acquisition of a municipal water systemhad engaged the attention of the Board ofSupervisors for six or seven years. He wasevidently of the opinion that his reportrecommending Calaveras as a municipalwater source would settle the question, buthe was in error. The city failed to acquireCalaveras, and Spring Valley came into pos-session of it. The Scowden report contains some inter-esting material about Calaveras. The valleyis described as follows: Calaveras Creek is the principal southfork of Alameda Creek, and takes its risein the most elevated regions of the Mou
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San Francisco water . d thatthe acquisition of a municipal water systemhad engaged the attention of the Board ofSupervisors for six or seven years. He wasevidently of the opinion that his reportrecommending Calaveras as a municipalwater source would settle the question, buthe was in error. The city failed to acquireCalaveras, and Spring Valley came into pos-session of it. The Scowden report contains some inter-esting material about Calaveras. The valleyis described as follows: Calaveras Creek is the principal southfork of Alameda Creek, and takes its risein the most elevated regions of the MountDiablo range. Its general course is north-westerly, and its length is about 38 miles.It is proposed to collect and store the watersof the Calaveras Creek, together with thewaters of its largest tributary, the ArroyoHondo, in an immense reservoir, coveringthe entire Calaveras Valley, by means of adam or embankment thrown across the nar-row canyon at the outlet of the valley, andthus form a reservoir in which would be. ther showing the dam when future construction will carry it to its ultimate elevation of 810 feet. At the presentadding a minimum of twenty-four million gallons daily to the San Francisco supply. At its final elevationfty-one billion gallons of water 10 SAN FRANCISCO WATER January, 1925