Santa Clara Valley Water District

The Santa Clara Valley Water District provides stream stewardship, wholesale water supply and flood protection for Santa Clara County, California, in the southern San Francisco Bay Area. The district encompasses all of the county’s and serves the area’s 15 cities, 1.7 million residents and more than 200,000 commuters. The district's three water treatment plants can produce as much as of drinking water a day. Another part of the district's mission is to manage flood and storm waters along the county’s hundreds of miles of creeks and rivers in an environmentally sensitive manner.

The district owns many dams, including:

• Almaden Dam (on Alamitos Creek)
• Calero Dam (on Calero Creek)
• Coyote Dam (forms Coyote Lake on Coyote Creek)
• Coyote Percolation Dam
• Elmer J. Chesbro Dam (on Llagas Creek)
• James J. Lenihan Dam (forms Lexington Reservoir on Los Gatos Creek)
• Leroy Anderson Dam (on Coyote Creek and Las Animas Creek)
• Rinconada Reservoir
• Stevens Creek Dam (on Stevens Creek)
• Uvas Dam (on Uvas Creek)
• Vasona Percolation Dam (on Los Gatos Creek)

Awards

In December 2010 the Santa Clara Valley Water District was chosen as the...
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