Oakland Underfoot

The Union Water Company was a short-lived private water provider of the early 20th century that served a territory from Richmond to San Leandro. As of 1916, it got its water from a network of 103 wells near the Bay shore between Newark and San Pablo. Examples like this water-main lid, from the neighborhood of Codornices Park in Berkeley, must be quite rare.

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