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Stevens Creek dam and reservoir
Stevens Creek Reservoir is located on Stevens Creek about
two miles southwest of Cupertino. Stevens Creek was originally known
as Arroyo de San José Cupertino. The stream now bears the name
of an early settler, Captain Elishia Stephens, a South Carolinian, who
led the first successful passage of wagons over the Sierra Nevada in
1844. Stevens Creek dam and reservoir is
one of six original systems approved for construction by voters in 1934.
It was completed in 1935. In 1985, an additional 231,000 cubic yards
of material was added to the dam, raising it 10 feet. The reservoir
capacity is 3,138 acre-feet of water. Its surface area is 92 acres.*
*Reservoir storage values have been updated
to reflect recent survey results.
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