Map of central and northern California showing suggested sources of water supply for San Francisco and adjacent territory and for irrigation uses.

Shows "watersheds of rivers above U.S.G.S. gauging stations or practical points of diversion"; "subdivisions of watersheds from which municipal supplies may be taken"; "proposed conduit lines"; and "principal areas now irrigated." Shows roads, railroad lines, national parks and towns. Irrigated area...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: United States. Advisory Board of Army Engineers (Issuing body)
United States. Congress House (Issuing body)
Norris Peters Co (Printer)
Language:English
Published: [Washington, D.C.] : [United States House of Representatives], [1913]
Series:House document (United States. Congress. House) ; 63rd Congress, 1st session, no. 54.
Subjects:
Water-supply > California, Northern > Maps.
Water-supply > California > San Francisco Bay Area > Maps.
Water diversion > California, Northern > Planning > Maps.
Watersheds > California, Northern > Maps.
Irrigation > California > Central Valley (Valley) > Maps.
California, Northern > Maps.
Maps.
Genre:
Maps.
Physical Description:1 map : color ; 51 x 45 cm.
Cartographic Data:Scale approximately 1:1,045,029
(W 124°24ʹ00ʺ--W 119°09ʹ00ʺ/N 42°06ʹ00ʺ--N 37°18ʹ00ʺ).
Format: Map
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Summary:
Shows "watersheds of rivers above U.S.G.S. gauging stations or practical points of diversion"; "subdivisions of watersheds from which municipal supplies may be taken"; "proposed conduit lines"; and "principal areas now irrigated." Shows roads, railroad lines, national parks and towns. Irrigated areas shown are in the Central Valley.
Note:Relief shown by hachures.
Map extracted from "Hetch Hetchy Valley : report of Advisory Board of Army Engineers to the Secretary of the Interior on investigations relative to sources of water supply for San Francisco and bay communities, February 19, 1913," issued as a U.S. House of Representatives document (Serial Set 6548 H.doc.54). ("May 27, 1913.—Ordered to be printed.")
"Plate I."--upper right margin.
Call Number:G4361.C3 1913 U5 Map