Visited on 3/10/2019, Jeff and I took a drive with our pups, Summer and Skye to the San Francisco Bay Area to take a tour of all of the lakes in Contra Costa County and a couple in Alameda County. Even though as we approached Lake Del Valle just south of the City of Livermore it was pouring rain we made to the Lake. The Park Ranger explained that areas of the Lakeshore was experienced flooding due to the recent rains in Northern California. This 1,060 surface acre lake is at an elevation of 735 feet above sea level. Lake Del Valle is a storage reservoir located 10 miles southeast of Livermore, in Alameda County, California. It is within Del Valle Regional Park. It is on Arroyo Valle (Spanish for "creek of the valley") in the Diablo Range. The lake is formed by Del Valle Dam, completed in 1968.
The lake and dam are
part of the California State Water Project, as part of the South Bay Aqueduct.
The lake serves in part as off-stream storage for the South Bay Aqueduct. The
lake is a popular destination for hikers, bikers, and boaters. The dam is 230
feet high and 880 feet long.
The Hetch Hetchy
Aqueduct passes below the lake, but does not connect to it.
My Jeep Wrangler getting nice and wet as we navigate the hills above Livermore, California to visit Del Valle Reservoir and Regional Park. Even though as we approached Lake Del Valle just south of the City of Livermore it was pouring rain we made to the Lake.
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