Santa Clara Valley Water District

Santa Clara Valley Water District
Water district overview
Formed 1968 (1968-MM)
Preceding agencies
  • Santa Clara Valley Water Conservation District
  • Santa Clara County Flood Control and Water Conservation District
HeadquartersSan Jose, California
Water district executive
  • Rick Callender, Chief Executive Officer[1]
Websitewww.valleywater.org

The Santa Clara Valley Water District (also known as Valley Water) 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 1,300 square miles (3,400 km2) and serves the area's 15 cities, 2 million residents and more than 200,000 commuters. In terms of acres, the district includes 138,000 acres, and 120,700 of those acres are lands that people have built cities, roads or cultivate farms on.[2] Almost 2,000 pumping wells supply the districts fields, houses and businesses with a clean reliable source of water.[2] The water district has about 150 miles of pipelines and operates 10 dams and reservoirs, three treatment plants, many groundwater recharge basins, three pump stations and an advanced water purification plant.[3] The district's three water treatment plants can produce as much as 210,000,000 US gallons (800,000 m3) of drinking water a day.

  1. ^ "Executive Management | Santa Clara Valley Water".
  2. ^ a b Tolman, C. F.; Poland, J. F. (1940). "Ground-water, salt-water infiltration, and ground-surface recession in Santa Clara Valley, Santa Clara County, California". Transactions, American Geophysical Union. 21 (1): 23. doi:10.1029/tr021i001p00023. ISSN 0002-8606.
  3. ^ "Where Your Water Comes From | Santa Clara Valley Water". www.valleywater.org. Retrieved 2022-03-11.