Dam Hetch Hetchy! As well dam for water-tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.
Muir’s arguments went unheeded, and the law authorizing the O’Shaughnessy Dam passed Congress on December 7, 1913 - (one year after this book was published). In 1923 the dam was completed on the Tuolumne River, flooding the entire valley under the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, which then began to deliver water to the Bay area.
