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The water that supplies the Santa Clara Valley Water District comes from various locations. Some of it comes from snowpack melt miles away. [3] This water is brought to the county through the many infrastructure projects in California, including the Federal Central Valley Project. [3] Santa Clara county also gets some of its water from recycled ...
The SFPUC provides fresh water from Hetch Hetchy Reservoir and other sources to 2.7 million customers for residential, commercial, and industrial uses. About one-third of its delivered water is sent to customers within San Francisco, while the remaining two-thirds are sent to customers in Alameda, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties.
The reservoir was created in 1957 (68 years ago) () by the construction of the Uvas Dam [6] across Uvas Creek in the southern part of Uvas Valley. It is the fifth largest reservoir owned by the Santa Clara Valley Water District.
San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District 28,800 35,500 0.7% San Gorgonio Pass Water Agency 17,300 21,300 4.2% San Luis Obispo County Flood Control and Water Conservation District 25,000 31,000 0.6% Santa Barbara County Flood Control and Water Conservation District 45,486 56,106 1.1% Santa Clara Valley Water District 100,000 120,000 2.4%
In the early parts of the 20th century, the Santa Clara Valley was a vegetable and fruit growing region. Ground water was pumped heavily, leading to the Santa Clara valley being the first region recognized to be affected by land subsidence in the 1940s. [2] Between 1912 and 1966, artesian pressure levels dropped more than 200 feet (61 m).
To accomplish that, the Bureau of Reclamation and San Luis & Delta-Mendota Water Authority are teaming on a second 10-foot dam raise that would create an additional 130,000 acre feet of storage.
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Of the approximate 3,000,000 acre-feet (3.7 × 10 9 m 3) of water distributed, 2,500,000 acre-feet (3.1 × 10 9 m 3) is delivered to farms, 200,000 acre-feet (250,000,000 m 3) to urban areas, including Tracy and cities with in the Santa Clara Valley Water District, and 300,000 acre-feet (370,000,000 m 3) for wildlife refuges.