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Reservoir Dam River County Owner Completed Type Height of dam [a] Reservoir capacity (ft) (m) (acre ft) (1,000 m 3) Almaden Reservoir: Almaden Dam: Alamitos Creek: Santa Clara: Santa Clara Valley Water District: 1935: Earth: 108 33: 1,586: 1,956 Alpine Lake: Alpine Dam: Lagunitas Creek: Marin: Marin Municipal Water District: 1917: Gravity: 143 ...
View of Donnell Lake from Highway 108. The dam is on the left end of the lake. The Oakdale Irrigation District (OID) and South San Joaquin Irrigation District (SSJID) joined forces in the late 1930s to design the Tri-Dam Project in an effort to satisfy the need for more water for irrigation, as both of the districts’ existing infrastructure was insufficient to meet the growing demand for ...
The irrigation districts desperately needed water storage for the dry season, and a number of small off-stream reservoirs were built, including Woodward Reservoir in 1916, though their benefit was limited at best. [81] In 1925 the districts issued $2.2 million of bonds to build a storage dam on the Stanislaus River. [83]
Under a long-standing agreement, Stanislaus County has operated the 6,700-acre regional park for the public at Woodward Reservoir. Stanislaus, water district lack accord on future of recreation at ...
Eleven reservoirs have a storage capacity greater than or equal to 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3); all of these except one are in or on drainages that feed into the Central Valley. The largest single reservoir in California is Shasta Lake , with a full volume of more than 4,552,000 acre-feet (5.615 km 3 ).
The earthen dam was completed in 1957 (68 years ago) () with a height of 284 feet (87 m), and a length of 1,000 feet (300 m) at its crest. [1] It impounds the Middle Fork of the Stanislaus River for hydroelectric power and irrigation water storage, part of the Stanislaus River Tri-Dam project cooperatively owned by the Oakdale Irrigation District and South San Joaquin Irrigation District.
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The Donnells Dam, Beardsley Dam and Tulloch Dam projects are located in Tuolumne County, California on the Middle Fork of the Stanislaus River.OID and SSJID co-developed the "Upper Works" (Donnells and Beardsley) and the "Lower Works" (Lake Tulloch) of the Tri-Dam Project [4] Donnells Reservoir, Beardsley Reservoir, and Lake Tulloch were fully operational just two years after its making was ...