- City:
- San Francisco, CA
- Site Type:
- Infrastructure and Utilities, Water Supply
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1936
- Designers:
- C.A. Lauenstein, D.J. Fee, I.E. Flaa
- Contractor:
- MacDonald & Kahn Co. Ltd of San Francisco
- Quality of Information:
- Very Good
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Extant
Description
An 840 x 965 ft reservoir that added 82 million gallons of storage to the existing 60 million gallon reservoir that was already on site. The reservoir is lined with 6″ of reinforced concrete and the roof has 21/2″ slab on concrete joists and girders, supported on circular columns spaced at 25′ intervals.
It was part of a $12,000,000 improvement program for the SF water supply system (the PWA-funded expansion of the Hetch Hetchy system, which included raising O’Shaughnessy Dam, the Pulgas Water Temple, and more) financed by a bond issue with the aid of a PWA grant in 1933. It has been leveled to create a parking lot for City College (also PWA).
Source notes
Western Construction News August 1937Site originally submitted by Andrew Laverdiere on May 8, 2017.
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aaron brick
Patrick McClanahan
Your statement that ‘It has been leveled to create a parking lot for City College (also PWA).’ surprises me; City College has never been near University Mound.
I don’t think this is accurate. Per the SFPUC, the reservoir is still in use and was recently seismically upgraded:
https://sfwater.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=9615
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z7xpOM4BdM
I think this page is confusing this reservoir for the Balboa ‘reservoir’, which is currently in use as a parking lot for City College (though it might become housing soon). That site was originally owned by SFPUC but was never actually used for water storage:
https://sfwater.org/modules/showdocument.aspx?documentid=10717
https://sunnysidehistory.org/the-history-of-the-balboa-reservoir/