Fwd: What is it? Valve Cover

[Marina Kukso]

hi all, received this on the localwiki general contact email. i am about to be out of internet range, but wanted to send this along in case anyone would like to get in touch with this person in the meantime.

- marina

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From: Charles Bucher <charle...@hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 10:19 PM
Subject: What is it? Valve Cover
To: "con...@localwiki.org" <con...@localwiki.org>

You have a picture of a metal street cover on your "What is It?

Where is it" page that says "UW Co" wondering what it is - I 

have some answers.  "UW Co" refers to the Union Water Co.

of California which existed between 1910 and 1921.  You can 

find another cover with the "UW Co" marking in Berkeley on

Euclid Ave. across from Berryman Reservoir.

The metal caps are the covers for the valves that EBMUD and

previous companies used to turn off the flow in the mains.  You 

can see a chart of about 18 early companies that flowed into

EBMUD soon when it formed in 1923- in the EBMUD lobby on

11th street.

In the past year or so I have been making a search for valve covers

that are marked with earlier companies - previous to EBMUD.  Now

I have pictures of about eighty.

Charles Bucher

[Anca Mosoiu]

Whoa!  I don't have time to follow up with this guy, but it's really cool that someone is keeping track of this information.  I'm fascinated by manhole covers and their decoration.

Anca.

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[Gene Anderson]

Charles Bucher is on the board of the Oakland Heritage Alliance and presented the OHA award to the Oakland Wiki. So nice to know OHA members are looking at the wiki :-)

Speaking of which, Annalee Allen regularly refers to the Oakland Wiki. For example, her most recent column (with an errant headline that she didn't write; "literary" not "literacy") refers to the entry on Marcus Books: http://www.insidebayarea.com/breaking-news/ci_29083491/c-span-documents-oaklands-deep-historical-and-literacy

gene

[Marina Kukso]

that's wonderful! i wonder if he can be encouraged to add his contributions directly to the wiki?

[Julio Rios]

Perhaps, Gene can add some of Charles' input with a citation?