What studies have been done on the feasibility of removing the dam and replacing the water and power supplies?
In 1987, President Reagan’s Interior Secretary Donald Hodel commissioned a study by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation engineers that described ways to replace water storage and electricity generation without the O’Shaughnessy Dam. In 2003, UC Davis grad student Sarah Null and her advisor, Dr. Jay Lund, completed a study of ways to restore Hetch Hetchy and address the water storage and power concerns of various stakeholders with use of the Don Pedro Reservoir. In September, 2004, Environmental Defense released a study that shows how the Don Pedro Reservoir could be used to replace much of the storage lost at Hetch Hetchy. Additional storage at Calaveras Reservoir could replace the rest.
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