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List of dams and reservoirs in California

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Following is a list of dams and reservoirs in California in a sortable table. There are over 1,400 named dams and 1,300 named reservoirs in the state of California.

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[1] The "height" listed is the vertical distance from the crest of the dam to the original stream bed at the downstream toe of the dam — hydraulic height, not foundation height.

[3] Clear Lake is a natural lake. The dam adds only 315,000 acre-feet (389,000,000 m³) of capacity and controls only the top 7 feet (2.1 m) of the lake.

[4] Donner Lake is a natural lake. The dam adds only 10,300 acre-feet (12,700,000 m³) of capacity and controls only the top 10 feet (3.0 m) of the lake.

[10] Lake Tahoe is a natural lake with a volume of 120 million acre-feet (150 km³). The dam controls only the top 6 feet (1.8 m) of the lake.

[15] The lake is only partially in California, as it sits astride the border between California and Nevada.

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List of dams and reservoirs in California

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Reservoir	Dam	River	County	Owner	Completed	Type	Height of dam^{[lower-alpha 1]}		Reservoir capacity
Reservoir	Dam	River	County	Owner	Completed	Type	(ft)	(m)	(acre ft)	(1,000 m³)
Almaden Reservoir	Almaden Dam	Alamitos Creek	Santa Clara	Santa Clara Valley Water District	1935	Earth	108	33	1,586	1,956
Alpine Lake	Alpine Dam	Lagunitas Creek	Marin	Marin Municipal Water District	1917	Gravity	143	44	8,892	10,968
Anderson Lake	Leroy Anderson Dam	Coyote Creek	Santa Clara	Santa Clara Valley Water District	1950	Earth	235	72	91,280	112,590
Antelope Lake	Antelope Dam	Upper Indian Creek	Plumas	California Department of Water Resources	1965	Earth	120	37	22,566	27,835
Balsam Forebay	Balsam Meadow Dam	Balsam Creek, West Fork	Fresno	Southern California Edison	1986	Rock-fill	127	39	2,040	2,500
Barker Reservoir	Barker Dam	off-stream reservoir	Riverside	Joshua Tree National Park	1949	?	15	4.6	290	?
Barrett Lake	Barrett Dam	Cottonwood Creek	San Diego County	San Diego	1923	Concrete gravity	171	52	34,206	42,192
Bass Lake	Crane Valley Dam	Willow Creek, North Fork	Madera	Pacific Gas and Electric Company	1910	Hydraulic fill	145	44	45,410	56,010
Bear Gulch Reservoir	Bear Gulch Dam	off-stream reservoir	San Mateo	California Water Service Company	1896	Earth	61	19	672	829
Bear River Reservoir	Bear River Dam	Bear River	Amador	Pacific Gas and Electric Company	1900	Rock-fill	83	25	6,818	8,410
Beardsley Lake	Beardsley Dam	Stanislaus River, Middle Fork	Tuolumne	Oakdale & South San Joaquin Irrigation Districts	1957	Earth and rock	278	85	70,600	87,000
Bethany Reservoir	Bethany Forebay Dam	Italian Slough tributary	Alameda	California Department of Water Resources	1961	Earth	95	29	5,250	6,480
Big Bear Lake	Bear Valley Dam	Bear Creek	San Bernardino	Big Bear Municipal Water District	1911	Multiple arch	80	24	74,000^[1]	91,000
Big Dry Creek Reservoir	Big Dry Creek Dam	Dry Creek and Dog Creek	Fresno	Fresno Metropolitan Flood Control District	1948	Earth	50	15	30,200	37,300
Big Sage Reservoir	Big Sage Dam	Rattlesnake Creek	Modoc	Hot Springs Valley Irrigation District	1921	Earth	49	15	77,000	95,000
Big Tujunga Reservoir	Big Tujunga Dam	Big Tujunga Creek	Los Angeles	Los Angeles County Department of Public Works	1931	Variable radius arch	208	63	5,750	7,090
Black Butte Lake	Black Butte Dam	Stony Creek	Tehama and Glenn	United States Army Corps of Engineers	1963	Earth	156	48	143,700	177,300
Boca Reservoir	Boca Dam	Little Truckee River	Nevada	United States Bureau of Reclamation	1939	Earth	93	28	41,110	50,720
Bon Tempe Lake	Bon Tempe Dam	Lagunitas Creek	Marin	Marin Municipal Water District	1949	Earth	98	30	4,300	5,300
Bouquet Reservoir	Bouquet Canyon Dam	Bouquet Creek	Los Angeles	Los Angeles Department of Water and Power	1934	Earth	190	58	36,505	45,028
Bowman Lake	Bowman Dam	Canyon Creek	Nevada	Nevada Irrigation District	1927	Rock-fill	175	53	64,000	79,000
Bridgeport Reservoir	Bridgeport Dam	East Walker River	Mono	Walker River Irrigation District	1924	Earth	63	19	44,100	54,400
Briones Reservoir	Briones Dam	Bear Creek	Contra Costa	East Bay Municipal Utility District	1964	Earth	273	83	67,520	83,280
Brush Creek Reservoir	Brush Creek Dam	Brush Creek	El Dorado	Sacramento Municipal Utility District	1970	Variable radius arch	213	65	1,530	1,890
Bucks Lake	Bucks Storage Dam	Bucks Creek	Plumas	Pacific Gas and Electric Company	1928	Rock-fill	122	37	103,000	127,000
Butt Valley Reservoir	Butt Valley Dam	Butt Creek	Plumas	Pacific Gas and Electric Company	1924	Hydraulic fill	106	32	49,800	61,400
Buena Vista Lake	Buena Vista Dam	off-stream reservoir	Kern	J. Boswell & Tenneco West	1890	Earth	20	6.1	205,000	253,000
Calaveras Reservoir	Calaveras Dam	Calaveras Creek	Alameda	City and County of San Francisco	1925	Hydraulic fill	210	64	30,000 (restricted due to seismic hazard)	37,000
Calero Reservoir	Calero Dam	Calero Creek	Santa Clara	Santa Clara Valley Water District	1935	Earth	90	27	9,850	12,100
Camanche Reservoir	Camanche Dam	Mokelumne River	San Joaquin, Amador, and Calaveras	East Bay Municipal Utility District	1963	Earth	171	52	417,120	514,510
Camp Far West Reservoir	Camp Far West Dam	Bear River	Yuba	South Sutter Water District	1963	Earth and rock	185	56	104,500	128,900
Canyon Lake	Railroad Canyon Dam	San Jacinto River	Riverside	Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District	1928	Variable radius arch	94	29	11,900	14,600
Caples Lake	Caples Lake Dam	Silver Fork tributary	Alpine	El Dorado Irrigation District	1922	Earth and rock	71	22	21,580	26,620
Carbon Canyon Reservoir	Carbon Canyon Dam	Carbon Canyon Creek	Orange	United States Army Corps of Engineers	1961	Earth	99	30	6,615	8,160
Castaic Lake	Castaic Dam	Castaic Creek	Los Angeles	California Department of Water Resources	1973	Earth	340	100	323,700	399,300
Cedar Lake	Cedar Lake Dam	Talmadge Creek	San Bernardino	First Congregational Church of Los Angeles	1928	Arch dam	28	8.5	30	37
Cherry Lake	Cherry Valley Dam	Cherry Creek	Tuolumne	City and County of San Francisco	1956	Earth and rock	315	96	273,500	337,400
Chesbro Reservoir	Elmer Chesbro Dam	Llagas Creek	Santa Clara	Santa Clara Valley Water District	1955	Earth and rock	95	29	8,952	11,042
Clear Lake	Cache Creek Dam	Cache Creek	Lake	Yolo County Flood Control and Water Conservation District	1914	Gravity	30	9.1	1,155,000^{[lower-alpha 2]}	1,425,000