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San Francisco in need of water
San franciso looks to hetch hetchy as location for reservoir -
National park
Yosemite and Hetch Hetchy are established as national parks. -
The sierra club
John muir founds sierra club -
Water rights
Mayor james phelan files for water rights in hetch hetchy -
Mayor phelan pushes
Mayor phelan asks for a permit to build a reservoir in hetch hetch hetchy. It is denied -
San Fancisco earthquake
San Francisco has massive earthquake and fire that destroys the city. People blame most of the destruction on lack of water supply. James garfield gets permission to extend the cities water supply to hetch hetchy -
Hearing
Both sides of the Hetch Hetchy argument go to a hearing to debate and argue their point -
Bill signed
The bill was signed by president Willson allowing san francisco to build the dam in hetch hetchy. The next day the sierra club went on one last trip to hetch hetchy. 4 days later john muir died -
Dam is built
The dam titled O’shaughnessy dam was completed costing 100 million dollars. 68 people died in the construction of the dam. -
Funding denined
Congress refuses to fund the restoration of hetch hetchy -
Restore hetch hetchy
Leaders from many enviormental orginizations form the restore hetch hetchy foundation -
Lawsuit denied
Restore hetch hetchy’s lawsuit to try and restore hetch hetchy is denied in court.
