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Identifier: sanfrancwat4192581930spri (find matches)
Title: San Francisco water
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Spring Valley Water Company (San Francisco, Calif.)
Subjects: Water-supply
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : Spring Valley Water Co.
Contributing Library: San Francisco Public Library
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strong southerly winds and gales; Wednes-iday unsettled, with occasional rains, andwinds shifting to westerly; mild tempera-lture. This map shows that the storm hasjtraveled southwesterly to a point about 500miles west of San Francisco. On Tuesday itrained 1.21 inches, and on Wednesday .351inch, showing the accuracy of the forecast. ; This storm appeared in the north PacificOcean about January 27, 1926, began travel-ing south and east, and caused rain of more)or less intensity for ten days, during whichtime 7.19 inches fell. Stormy weather con-tinued off and on till February 23rd, with a \PRIL, I926 SAN FRANCISCOPUBLIC LIBRARY SAN FRANCISCO WATER
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Figure 2. IT. S. Daily Weather Map for Tuesday, February 2, 1926, showingcenter of storm about 500 miles west of San Francisco total rainfall from January 27th to Febru-ary 23rd of 10.27 inches, and a replenish-ment of the storage in the reservoirs of aboutten billion gallons. Thus in twenty-sevendays sufficient water was received from rain-fall to supply San Francisco for 250 days,exclusive of pumping from wells. It is instructive to study the daily figuresof the replenishment of the Spring Valley•reservoirs—Calaveras, Crystal Springs, SanAndres, Pilarcitos, and Lake Merced—dur-ing the rainfall of February. The figures(here totaled for all the above-mentionedreservoirs) show how rapid is the replenish-ment of storage following rainfall on water-sheds of such productivity as Spring Valleys. T .18 inche.84 •97 •57 •36 83.2 million gallons 63.7 42.8108.9264.1(258.42181.4540.1339-1227.1150.8122.6244-5209.6165.6 Feb.Mar. (inc.) 466.9 Jan. Feb. Rainfall in San Francisco 2.38 in

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  • bookyear:1922
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  • bookauthor:Spring_Valley_Water_Company__San_Francisco__Calif__
  • booksubject:Water_supply
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  • booksponsor:California_State_Library_Califa_LSTA_Grant
  • bookleafnumber:132
  • bookcollection:americana
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