San Justo Dam is a dam and reservoir in
San Benito County, California
San Benito County (; ''San Benito'', Spanish language, Spanish for "Benedict of Nursia, St. Benedict"), officially the County of San Benito, is a county (United States), county located in the California Coast Ranges, Coast Range Mountains of the ...
, about southwest of
Hollister. The dam provides offstream water storage for the federal
Central Valley Project
The Central Valley Project (CVP) is a federal power and water management project in the U.S. state of California under the supervision of the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR). It was devised in 1933 in order to provide irrigation and m ...
via the Pacheco Conduit and Hollister Conduit fed by the
San Luis Reservoir
The San Luis Reservoir is an artificial lake on San Luis Creek in the eastern slopes of the Diablo Range of Merced County, California, approximately west of Los Banos on State Route 152, which crosses Pacheco Pass and runs along its north ...
.
Completed in January 1986, the dam is an earthfill structure high. Along with a companion dike structure high, it forms a reservoir with a capacity of about .
San Justo Reservoir
LOSEDwas closed in 2008, following a Zebra Mussle infection and remains closed until further notice.
See also
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List of lakes in California
There are more than 3,000 named lakes, reservoirs, and dry lakes in the U.S. state of California.
Largest lakes
In terms of area covered, the largest lake in California is the Salton Sea, a lake formed in 1905 which is now saline. It occupies ...
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Dams in California
United States Bureau of Reclamation dams
Reservoirs in San Benito County, California
Dams completed in 1986
Central Valley Project
Reservoirs in California
Reservoirs in Northern California