Visited on 3/29/2019
during a weekend camping trip with Jeff and our two Chocolate labs, Summer and
Skye. The Santa Clara Valley Water District built
the Calero Dam forming this 349 acre lake at an elevation of 365 feet above sea
level. The dam was built during the
Great Depression, completing it in 1935 after acquiring land as the Santa Clara
Valley Water Conservation District. The dam and reservoir is one of the six
original reservoirs approved for construction by voters in May 1934.
Both dam and reservoir
are located on Calero Creek. The 2.2-miles-long reservoir can store 9,934
acre-feet of water. Calero Reservoir
provides water directly to drinking water treatment plants, which treat and
test it for safety. The district then distributes the water to water retailers
to sell to the county’s 1.8 million residents. Calero also captures and stores
winter runoff to recharge groundwater basins, helps store water from the nearby
Almaden Reservoir watershed and accepts imported water.
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