. Sierra Club bulletin . e the Hetch-Hetchy dam-lake would be only a roughimitation of a natural lake for a few of the springmonths; an open mountain sepulcher the others. Hetch-Hetchy water is the purest, wholly unpolluted,and forever unpollutable. On the contrary, excepting that of the Merced belowYosemite, it is less pure than that of most of the otherSierra streams, because of the sewerage of campgroundsdraining into it, especially of the Big Tuolumne Mead-ows campgrounds, where hundreds of tourists and moun-taineers, with their animals, are encamped for monthsevery summer, soon t
. Sierra Club bulletin . e the Hetch-Hetchy dam-lake would be only a roughimitation of a natural lake for a few of the springmonths; an open mountain sepulcher the others. Hetch-Hetchy water is the purest, wholly unpolluted,and forever unpollutable. On the contrary, excepting that of the Merced belowYosemite, it is less pure than that of most of the otherSierra streams, because of the sewerage of campgroundsdraining into it, especially of the Big Tuolumne Mead-ows campgrounds, where hundreds of tourists and moun-taineers, with their animals, are encamped for monthsevery summer, soon to be followed by thousands oftravelers from all the world. These temple destroyers, devotees of ravaging com-mercialism, seem to have a perfect contempt for Nature,and instead of lifting their eyes to the mountains, liftthem to dams and town skyscrapers. Dam Hetch-Hetchy! As well dam for water-tanksthe peoples cathedrals and churches, for no holier tem-ple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man. PLATES XLIX AND LAKE RAMPART; WEST SHORE OF TENAYA.
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