Historic Resource Evaluation Project - Tuolumne Utilities District

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Figure 7. Entrance of the tunnel at Spring Gap. (Kuchel & Dresel lithograph, drawn by F. Holtzmann, courtesy of Columbia State Historic Park Archive.) An account in 1852 noted that the ditch of the TCWC sent down a 150 tom stream into Columbia, giving a tremendous impetus to operations in the whole section of the country round Columbia, Springfield and Shaw’s Flat. It was estimated that probably not less than three thousand miners were actively engaged within a circle of one mile (Lang 1882:127). Quite a portion of the water was also carried to Montezuma Flats by that December. Montezuma Flats, which commenced at the palisaded rocks of Table Mountain and was bounded by it on the north and west, was one of the richest early gold camps (Figure 9). There the company constructed a large reservoir for use in the dry season, filled by a ditch carrying a stream three and a half feet in width by two in depth (Lang 1882:115-116). Foothill Resources, Ltd. 3.8 TUD Ditch Sustainability Project Francis Heritage, LLC Historic Resource Evaluation Report
Figure 8. The High Flume. (Kuchel & Dresel lithograph, drawn by F. Holtzmann, courtesy of Columbia State Historic Park Archive.) In order to store water for the dry seasons, several storage reservoirs were built in the high country: the Upper or Big Dam Reservoir, built in 1856; the log filled Upper and Lower Strawberry Reservoirs built in 1856 and 1857 (replaced by the drop-filled granite dam of the Sierra and San Francisco Power Company in 1916), Herring Creek Reservoir, and Lyons Flat Reservoir, erected by the TCWC in 1857 and rebuilt in 1897-1898 on land purchased from Gardner Grey in 1881. Lyons Flat Reservoir was designed by civil engineer C. E. Grunsky and later reconstructed by PG&E (PG&E 1947:2). Other reservoirs were constructed in the lower elevations, most also to store water for local distribution during the dry months. They are discussed individually in Chapter 4 in the histories of the individual ditch systems. Foothill Resources, Ltd. 3.9 TUD Ditch Sustainability Project Francis Heritage, LLC Historic Resource Evaluation Report
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Page 6 and 7: Section 4 Ditch (P-55-003161; CA-TU
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Page 10 and 11: Figure 1. Project vicinity. Consu
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Page 14 and 15: sparsely or intermittently; new set
Page 16 and 17: 1850s Gold Rush. As many as 10,000
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Page 24 and 25: In 1855 the need for more water for
Page 26 and 27: Figure 5. Reservoir of the Tuolumne
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Page 32 and 33: Figure 9. Montezuma Flats, ca. 1859
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History. The present Kincaid Ditch
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Evaluation. The Kincaid Ditch appea
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ductile iron pipeline is laid in th
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Phoenix Ditch (P-55-003751; CA-TUO-
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On August 27, 1861, William Clark,
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C Figure 28. Portion of Tuolumne Co
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Ownership of the TW&EPC system was
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ditch had been absorbed into the TC
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Camp Road, various concrete and/or
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Ditch, in anticipation of providing
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Columbia Ditch system connection th
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Ridge to the Soulsby mill were cons
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There are eighteen features includi
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Table 1: Other Sites and Features R
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California Department of Transporta
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Goldberg, Susan K., Alice L. Hall,
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Marvin, Judith, and Terry Brejla 20
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Progressive Association 1901 Tuolum
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Thom, Robert, M.E. (continued) 1915
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