Should California reclaim Yosemite's ?lost valley'?

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August 6, 2012

Republican lawmakers and environmentalists want the dam removed and valley restored; Democratic San Franciscans want to keep their famously pure and cheap drinking water.

YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) ? This fall San Franciscans will vote on a local measure with national implications: It could return to the American people a flooded gorge described as the twin of breathtaking Yosemite Valley.

Voters will decide whether they want a plan for draining the 117-billion-gallon Hetch Hetchy reservoir in Yosemite National Park, exposing for the first time in 80 years a glacially carved, granite-ringed valley of towering waterfalls 17 miles north of its more famous geologic sibling.

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Source: http://www.djc.com/news/en/12043639.html

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