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The water that supplies the Santa Clara Valley Water District comes from various locations. Some of it comes from snowpack melt miles away. [3] This water is brought to the county through the many infrastructure projects in California, including the Federal Central Valley Project. [3] Santa Clara county also gets some of its water from recycled ...
The Calero Reservoir. The Guadalupe River watershed consists of 170 square miles (400 km 2) of land within northern California's Santa Clara County.The surface runoff from this area drains into the Guadalupe River, its tributary streams, reservoirs or other bodies of water which all eventually gets carried into the San Francisco Bay (indicated below, with surrounding counties in red).
Decades of ground water depletion due to urban development and agriculture resulted in substantial land subsidence. The Santa Clara Valley Water District and other water purveyors have replenished ground water levels by artificial recharge, which is occurring in the upper 500 feet (150 m) of the upper aquifer. [6]
In 1943, because of the rapid expansion of orchards in the county, the Santa Clara Valley Water District determined that the well water in the Santa Clara Valley was being diminished rapidly and a dam was needed on Los Gatos Creek, with one goal being to percolate the water into the ground and ultimately increase the amount of well water ...
San Luis Obispo County Flood Control and Water Conservation District 25,000 31,000 0.6% Santa Barbara County Flood Control and Water Conservation District 45,486 56,106 1.1% Santa Clara Valley Water District 100,000 120,000 2.4% Solano County Water Agency 47,756 58,906 1.1% Tulare Lake Basin Water Storage District 87,471 107,894 2.1%
It is the second largest reservoir owned by the Santa Clara Valley Water District. [2] A 4,595-acre county park ("Coyote-Bear") surrounds the reservoir, [3] and provides camping (RVs and tents), fishing [4] ("catch-and-release"), picnicking, and hiking activities. Swimming is not allowed by order of the Santa Clara Valley Water District. [5]
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In 2006, an Aquatic Habitat Assessment and Limiting Factors Analysis commissioned by the Santa Clara Valley Water District concluded that the key factor limiting smolt production within the study area (San Francisquito Creek mainstem and Los Trancos Creek) and potentially throughout the watershed, is a lack of suitable winter refuge in deep ...