The Sunol Water Temple is located at 505 Paloma Way in Sunol, California. Wikipedia ↗
505 Paloma Way · City-owned
CC BY-SA 4.0 · Oleg AlexandrovContracts and bonds
No payment, contract or bond in the City’s files names this place.
Staff and upkeep come from the Public Utilities Commission budget ($1.8B in FY2025).
In the archive
6 documents about it, at the Internet Archive.
2006The response volume for the dam-removal review, which warns that the water flowing through the temple is a character-defining feature — 'inflows are the temple's reason for being' — and that losing them could be read as a loss of integrity.
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Sunol / environmental impact report : comments and responsesFrom the Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library ↗2005The environmental review of removing Sunol and Niles dams, explaining that groundwater recovered by the infiltration galleries discharges through the temple before running on to the Sunol Aqueduct.
San Francisco Public Utilities Commission Sunol/Niles dam removal project : environmental impact reportFrom the Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library ↗2005The utility's history records that Spring Valley Water Company built the temple in 1910, to the design of Willis Polk, marking where its three East Bay water sources met.
San Francisco water and power : a history of the Municipal Water Department & Hetch Hetchy systemFrom the Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library ↗1997The Water Department's 1997 disability-access transition plan, which schedules the work needed to bring the temple's public areas into compliance alongside the Pulgas temple and the Sunol treatment plants.
Americans with Disabilities Act transition planFrom the Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library ↗—An appendix to the Alameda Watershed management plan, weighing gravel extraction and restoration alternatives north of Interstate 680 on the land around the temple.
Alameda Watershed management plan : appendix AFrom the Internet Archive — San Francisco Public Library ↗Other water facilities
