Calero Dam - San Jose, California
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DougK
N 37° 11.274 W 121° 46.784
10S E 608309 N 4116414
Calero Dam is an earthen dam 90 feet high and 840 feet (260 m) long containing 550,000 cubic yards (420,000 m3) of material. Its crest is 490 feet (150 m) above sea level.
Waymark Code: WMYWXH
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 08/03/2018
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Calero Dam forms the Calero Reservoir in
Calero County Park.
From the Valley Water Reservoirs webpage:
The Santa Clara Valley Water District built the Calero Dam 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. Its surface area is 349 acres.* 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.
The water district is currently in the midst of a seismic retrofit of the Calero Dam.