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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 ...
In the early parts of the 20th century, the Santa Clara Valley was a vegetable and fruit growing region. Ground water was pumped heavily, leading to the Santa Clara valley being the first region recognized to be affected by land subsidence in the 1940s. [2] Between 1912 and 1966, artesian pressure levels dropped more than 200 feet (61 m).
The Santa Clara Valley Water District imports 55% of its water. Much of that, including both federal and state contracts, is already stored at San Luis Reservoir and arrives at treatment ...
‘The least worst thing’ Osha Meserve, an environmental lawyer who is among the coalition opposed to the expansion of Pacheco Reservoir by the Santa Clara Valley Water District, which receives ...
In the Bay Area, the Santa Clara Valley Water District also plans to pursue potable reuse. In a study last year, researchers at the Pacific Institute said California recycles about 23% of its ...
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 ...
The reservoir was created in 1957 (68 years ago) () by the construction of the Uvas Dam [6] across Uvas Creek in the southern part of Uvas Valley. It is the fifth largest reservoir owned by the Santa Clara Valley Water District.
The reservoir is managed by the Santa Clara Valley Water District (SCVWD) and has a current capacity of 3,465 acre-feet (4,274,000 m 3) of water. As currently managed by the SCVWD, flows are released during summer months which result in maintaining a wet channel for approximately 5.7 miles (9.2 km) downstream of the Reservoir (to Fremont Avenue ...