County Will Reject City Council Plan to Supply Russell City Water, Daily Review, Sept. 03, 1949

Daily Review, Sept. 03, 1949

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Russell City residents, desperate for domestic water to replace that supplied by wells polluted by septic tank seepage, faced the bitter news today that Alameda county is unwilling to share with the city of Hayward the cost of bringing them Hotch-Hetchy water,

May Extend City Water to Russell

Daily Review, Aug. 18, 1949

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Possibility of extending city's water lines to Russell City was voiced by Councilman John Haar at the Monday night council meeting.

Haar asked City Engineer (und newly appointed public works administrator) Hugh Gallaber to study the costs of extending water lines, to Russell City, and asked the cost of moving the Jackson street pumping station to a high point near Mt. Eden.