St. Helena’s water runs from an 1878 earthen dam built by Chinese laborers in York Canyon to today’s Bell Canyon reservoir — a 150-year story of dams, droughts, lawsuits and the wine families who started it.
Lake Sonoma in northern Sonoma County provides drinking water and a recrational area.
St. Helena’s water runs from an 1878 earthen dam built by Chinese laborers in York Canyon to today’s Bell Canyon reservoir — a 150-year story of dams, droughts, lawsuits and the wine families who started it.