Cross-Bay Pipleline #1, Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct, Ravenswood, CA, 2025.All the pixels, without a beginning or an end, at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54#photography

A long off-white pipeline, seen from the side, over marshland with a body of water and railroad tracks in the background.
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[–] [S] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

California's Hetch Hetchy aqueduct, completed in 1936, supplies about 85% of the water used in the San Francisco Bay area. Originating over 160 miles away, at Yosemite's Hetch Hetchy reservoir, and working chiefly by gravity, a 21 mile section of two pipelines crosses the South Bay via a series of above- and under- ground tunnels and bridges just south of the Dumbarton Bridge. This section, near the end of its useful life, has recently been augmented by a deep tunnel.

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