Study Says Hetch Hetchy Valley Can Be Restored

Yosemite National Park, CA -- Researchers released a major study regarding the Hetch Hetchy reservoir, revealing that practical, reasonably priced solutions exist to restore the reservoir.

The non-profit organization Restore Hetch Hetchy found that there are feasible ways to replace the water and energy that would otherwise be lost if O'Shaughnessy Dam were removed and Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy Valley were restored.

For the first time, the study reveals that by diverting water from the Tuolumne River into existing pipelines, 95% of the water and 73% of the energy that would be lost if the dam were removed could be retained.

The study provides the first detailed analysis of the actual removal of O'Shaughnessy Dam and ecological restoration of Hetch Hetchy Valley. Removal of the dam would take 5 years.

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