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City workers using a crane on the Riverside Avenue bridge to try to loosen a log jam. The photo is taken during one of the storms of 1983 that caused the San Lorenzo River to flood.

Date: 1983-01-03
Type: PHOTO

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Construction of extra water filters during the 1967 modernization of the Graham Hill Water Treatment Plant.

Date: 1967
Type: PHOTO

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Construction of pipelines to carry water from the Tait Street wells, under the San Lorenzo River, to the River Street Water Treatment Plant at 124 River Street.

Date: Between 1955-1960
Type: PHOTO

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Construction of the Bay Street Reservoir. It appears that horse teams were still used to some extent--notice the horses pulling a vehicle by the far wall.

Date: 1924-08-22
Type: PHOTO

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Construction of the Bay Street Reservoir.

Date: 1924-06-30
Type: PHOTO

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Construction of the Bay Street Reservoir. The reservoir covers seven acres and holds 36,000 gallons of water.

Date: 1924-09-23
Type: PHOTO

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Construction of the filter gallery at the Graham Hill Water Treatment Plant. Part of the original 1960 plant, the filter gallery houses the controls for opening and closing the valves.

Date: 1960
Type: PHOTO

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Beginning stages of the construction of the Newell Creek Dam.

Date: 1960
Type: PHOTO

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Construction of the Newell Creek Dam, an earthen dam approximately 195 feet high. The dam and the Loch Lomond Reservoir were built in 1960 at a cost of $2,550,600.

Date: ca. 1960
Type: PHOTO

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Cooper Street during Pacific Avenue paving.

Date: May 1927
Type: PHOTO

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