Visited on 4/12/2018
while traveling to Southern California for a work assignment, Lake Piru is a 1,240
acre reservoir located in Los Padres National Forest and Topatopa Mountains of
Ventura County, California, created by the construction in 1955 of the Santa
Felicia Dam on Piru Creek, which is a tributary of the Santa Clara River.
The elevation of the
reservoir is 1,043 feet above sea level, and the elevation of the dam spillway
is 1,055 feet. The dam is owned and
operated by the United Water Conservation District based in nearby Santa Paula,
California. The district is a multi-service district providing flood control,
recreation services, surface and groundwater conservation, groundwater
replenishment, and wholesale water for agriculture and urban uses to the Santa
Clara River Valley and Oxnard Plain. Formed on December 5, 1950, under the Water
Conservation Act of 1931, it owns approximately 2,200-acre around and including
the lake and dam.
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