Description: Photo no. 15 from 1918 California State Board of Health Progress report
Photographer/artist: C.G. Gillespie
Date taken: Oct. 20, 1917
Photo location: Boca
Type: photo
Subject: Truckee River pollution
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Source: TDHS Collection
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Contributor: Truckee Sanitary District and in 2012, Tom Macaulay
Notes: HCS entered 8/25/2021. Truckee River on left. Little Truckee enters through culvert on right. Note pile of lumber between sewer dump and river. Note handwritten note sewer dump. Part I Progress Report to the California State Board of Health on the Feasibility of a Clean-up of the Truckee River by G.G. Gillespie, Director, Bureau of Sanitary Engineering, August 14, 1918; Part II Report on the Pollution of the Truckee River by the Mills of the Crown Willamette Paper Co., at Floriston, Cal., by Frank Bachmann, Chief Chemist, Bureau of Sanitary Engineering, March 4, 1918; Part III, Photographs and Maps to accompany this combined report.
Rights: Yes
Identifier: TSD0015
Serial Number: 2017
Donation: Truckee Sanitary District (TSD) collection (#32)
