By Dan Brekke, KQED News Fix
Activists have launched a new round in their long-running campaign to restore Yosemite National Park’s Hetch Hetchy Valley to its natural condition by draining the reservoir that serves San Francisco and most of the Peninsula.
In a lawsuit filed last week in Tuolumne County, the group Restore Hetch Hetchy renews arguments that featured prominently in a 2012 San Francisco ballot campaign — namely, that the water supply from the San Francisco’s Sierra Nevada reservoir can be readily and relatively cheaply replaced by altering management of the Tuolumne River.
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