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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 ...
On May 6, 1959, the City of San José and City of Santa Clara signed a joint powers agreement, "Agreement between San Jose and Santa Clara Respecting Sewage Treatment Plant", [1] giving Santa Clara 20% ownership in exchange for helping to fund upgrades at the plant, which was renamed the San Jose/Santa Clara Water Pollution Control Plant. [2]
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).
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 ...
It is the fifth largest reservoir owned by the Santa Clara Valley Water District. [ 7 ] In 2013, the Scoffone family sold 357 acres (144 ha) adjacent to the park to the Peninsula Open Space Trust , which doubled the park's size.
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 ...
Reportedly, Saratoga Creek (Campbell Creek) had steelhead and coho salmon runs. Large portions of the tributaries of the river were straightened and armored starting in the late 19th century and continuing through the 20th century first by farmers and then by the Santa Clara Valley Water District (SCVWD) and its predecessor organizations. They ...
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]