HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso. 1987 - 300 - Recommending a proposed modification of the name of whiskeytown dam to clair a hill whiskeytown dam p 411
RESOLUTION NO. g7-300
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDDING
RECOMMENDING A PROPOSED MODIFICATION OF THE NAME OF
WHISKEYTOWN DAM TO CLAIR A. HILL WHISKEYTOWN DAM.
WHEREAS, the Trinity River Division of the United States
Central Valley Project was authorized by the Congress in 1955 ,
and completed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation in 1964;
and
WHEREAS, the project includes Trinity Dam and Clair Engle
Lake, Lewiston Dam and Lake, Trinity River Fish Hatchery, Clear
Creek Tunnel, Judge Francis Carr Powerhouse, Whiskeytown Dam and
Lake, Spring Creek Tunnel and Powerplant, Clear Creek South Unit,
Cow Creek Unit, and other features; and
WHEREAS, Clair A. Hill, founder and President of Clair A.
Hill and Associates, now CH2M Hill, an engineering firm in
Redding, California, represented the Shasta County Board of
Supervisors during the Authorization Hearings on the Trinity
River Division, and testified before the Subcommittee on
Irrigation and Drainage of the Committee on Interior and Insular
Affairs; and
WHEREAS, based on studies which he conducted entirely on his
own initiative, Mr. Hill offered suggestions at the Hearings on
how to make the Trinity River Division a better plroject by
including a Whiskeytown Dam and Reservoir on Clear Creek, west of
the City of Redding; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Hill subsequently submitted to the Committee
his report entitled "Clear Creek Alternatives for Trinity River
Development" dated June 1954 ; and
WHEREAS, as a result of Mr. Hill' s work, the United States
Bureau of Reclamation modified the feasibility report on the
Trinity River Division to include Whiskeytown Dam and Reservoir,
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Clear Creek South Unit (Muletown Conduit) , and Cow Creek Unit
(Bella Vista Conduit) to provide additional water supplies for
the irrigation of lands on both the east and west sues of the
Sacramento River, with no increase in project cost; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Hill acted as Engineer for the City from
January 1 , 1950 , to October 15 , 1952 ;
WHEREAS, Mr. Hill is currently the Chairman of the
California Water Commission, being first appointed in 1949 to the
State Water Resources Board, a predecessor agency of the
Commission, and has served as a member of the Commission under
four Governors; and
WHEREAS, Mr. Hill spent a lifetime in the development of
California' s water resources to benefit all Californians, and it
now seems appropriate to ensure that future generations will
become aware of his contributions to the construction and
operation of the water resources of the State of California; and
WHEREAS, without Mr. Hill' s vision and farsightedness, there
would be no Whiskeytown Dam nor any irrigation features of the
Central Valley Project in Shasta County today; and
WHEREAS, there is strong, growing local supportpfor a
proposal to rename the Whiskeytown Dam in honor of Clailr A. Hill;
and
WHEREAS, the California Water Commission considered the name
"Clair A. Hill Whiskeytown Dam" ; and on September 4 1987 , in
Resolution No. 87-6 , recommended the proposed modification of the
name of Whiskeytown Dam to the "Clair A. Hill Whiskeytown Dam" of
the Trinity River Division of the United States Central Valley
Project;
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City Iof Redding
hereby lends its support to the proposal to rename Whiskeytown
Dam in honor of Clair A. Hill; and recommends that the name of
Whiskeytown Dam be changed to the "Clair A. Hill Whiskeytown Dam"
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of the Trinity River Division of the United States Central Valley
Project. e
I HEREBY CERTIFY that taecljouor going Resolution was
introduced and read at a regular /meeting of the City Council of
the City of Redding on the 29th day of September, 1987 , and was
duly adopted at said meeting by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Carter, Gard, Johannessen and Dahl
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS : None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Fulton
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
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MIKE DAHL, Mayor
City of Redding
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ATTEST: FORM APPROVED:
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ETHEL A. NICHOLS, City Clerk RAN ALL A. HAYS, Cit Attorney
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