San Justo Dam is a dam and reservoir in
San Benito County, California
San Benito County (; ''San Benito'', Spanish for " St. Benedict"), officially the County of San Benito, is a county located in the Central Coast region of California. Situated in the California Coast Ranges, the county had a population of 64 ...
, 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 ...
via the Pacheco Conduit and Hollister Conduit fed by the
San Luis Reservoir.
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 mussel
The zebra mussel (''Dreissena polymorpha'') is a small freshwater mussel, an Aquatic animal, aquatic bivalve mollusk in the family Dreissenidae. The species originates from the lakes of southern Russia and Ukraine, but has been accidentally Intro ...
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 occup ...
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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