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CHAPTER IV
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FIRST WATOR SYSTEM OF SAN. FRANCISCO,
After leaving the mines Mr. Chabot
returned to San Francisco and started the
first public water system in that city.
The source of this supply was Lobos
Creek vhich is the outlet of an underground
drainage area of about ten square miles.
It drains most of what is now Golden Gate
Park and the Richmond and Sunset Districts.
Lobos Creek has been producing two
.and one quarter million gallons of water
daily for over sixty years. It now supplie
the Presidio Military Reservation,
Tir. Chakot and another man by the
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namo of Mr.. Bensley, warking together thousit
of constructing pumps on Lobos Creek near
Bakers Beach.
Water was lifted into a flume built on
the north side of Presidio Hills and taken
by pipeline through a-tunnel under Tort Mason
to the pumping plant now known as Black
Point Pumps. From there the water was lifted
in Francisco Street and Lombard Street reservoirs at different elevations and then dis-~
tributed to the consumers of the city.
At this Lime, 1858, there were six
hundred forty-four people in San Francisco
using the water from Lobos Creek,
As the city grew in size the water
System had to be enlarged to keep pace with
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