EBMUD Refuses Canyon Road Aid Wed, Dec 23, 1953 – 17 · Oakland Tribune (Oakland, California) · Newspapers.comEBMUD Refuses Canyon Road Aid
CANYON, Dec. 23. - Residents of this rustic community today reported "no success" in efforts to have East Bay Municipal Utility District contribute to upkeep of the privately maintained Redwood highway, a circuitous 3335 foot road that serves homesites perched on one wall of the wooded canyon.
The Redwood Heights Load Association, over the signature of Secretary-Treasurer Clyde Engle, last month charged that EBMUD vehicular equipment was damaging the road with traffic caused by razing of some 24 homes in the area.
The Redwood Heights Load Association, over the signature of Secretary-Treasurer Clyde Engle, last month charged that EBMUD vehicular equipment was damaging the road with traffic caused by razing of some 24 homes in the area.
EBMUD officials, after an inspection of the roadway, asserted they could find no damage attributable to their equipment.
“We are a public utility district. We have and will pay for any actual damage which district equipment causes, but we cannot contribute routine upkeep funds to a public thoroughfare which is privately maintained," district spokesmen [sic] said.
Canyonites said the P. G. and E., a private corporation, had contributed materials and labor toward repair of Redwood highway. They pointed out that, otherwise, the three-quarter mile road is maintained by residents themselves, working on weekends.
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