Examples of using Hetchy in English and their translations into Hebrew
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Hetch Hetchy.
Hetch Hetchy Valley was one of the main summer grazing areas for sheep.
The Hetch Hetchy.
Hetch Hetchy Valley.
The Hetch Hetchy.
Hetch Hetchy Reservoir.
In the early 20th century,the organization fought against the damming and flooding of the Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park.
Hetch Hetchy Reservoir.
However, there is a connecting aqueduct that allows CherryLake to be tapped to supply the Hetch Hetchy system during severe droughts.
The Hetch Hetchy Project.
Restore Hetch Hetchy is an organization created by the Sierra Club to advocate the restoration of the Hetch Hetchy Valley.
The Hetch Hetchy Valley.
The Hetch Hetchy project, located inside Yosemite National Park, incited national controversy, and is widely regarded as the origin of the modern environmental movement.
Gifford Pinchot, a progressive supporter of public utilities and head of the US Forest Service, which then had jurisdiction over the national parks,supported the creation of the Hetch Hetchy dam.
Work on the Hetch Hetchy project began in early 1914 shortly after the passage of the Raker Act.
The first water deliveries did not reach San Francisco until 1934, eleven years after the completion of O'Shaughnessy Dam andtwenty years after groundbreaking of the Hetch Hetchy project.
The bill to dam Hetch Hetchy passed Congress in 1913, and so the Sierra Club lost its first major battle.
After exploring fourteen sites throughout Central California,San Francisco had settled on the Tuolumne's Hetch Hetchy Valley as the ideal location to develop storage and hydroelectric power.
At the time, Hetch Hetchy was an isolated, seldom visited subalpine valley, visited intermittently by gold seekers and sheepherders.
Gifford Pinchot, a progressive supporter of public utilities and head of the US Forest Service, which then had jurisdiction over the national parks,supported the creation of the Hetch Hetchy dam.
Due to the pristine quality of the water, the Hetch Hetchy system is one of only a few serving major cities in the United States that does not require filtration.
Pinchot was generally opposed to preservation for the sake of wilderness or scenery, a fact perhaps best illustrated by theimportant support he offered to the damming of Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park.
The Hetch Hetchy Valley, which was at the time considered equally beautiful to Yosemite Valley, became the center of the first major environmental controversy in the United States.
By draining the reservoir, removing the dam and restoring the valley to its original state, visitors to the park would once again beable to enjoy the natural beauty of Hetch Hetchy- once compared to that of Yosemite Valley.
It impounds the Tuolumne River, forming the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir at the lower end of Hetch Hetchy Valley in Yosemite National Park, about 160 miles(260 km) east of San Francisco.
In 1908 Secretary of the Interior James R. Garfield responded to San Francisco's appeal, granting the city rights to development at Hetch Hetchy, stating that"Hetch Hetchy was not unique, a lake would be even more beautiful than its meadow floor and the hydroelectric power generated could eventually pay for the costs of construction.".
Because of the unique geology of the Hetch Hetchy watershed, which consists of shallow soils underlain by solid granite bedrock, water that flows into the reservoir is exceptionally clear and of very high quality.
Although the Raker Act explicitly stated that power and water from the Hetch Hetchy Project could be used only for public purposes, San Francisco has sold Hetch Hetchy power to Pacific Gas& Electric(PG&E) since 1925.