Federal dam safety regulators ordered Santa Clara County’s largest reservoir drained in 2020
A $1.2 billion project to rebuild the largest dam in Santa Clara County to reduce the risk of it failing in a major earthquake has finally begun to make significant visible progress, as construction crews have started to dig a huge new outlet tunnel at Anderson Dam near Morgan Hill.
“This definitely is one of our biggest, and most complex projects,” said Sharon Tapia, manager of the state Division of Safety of Dams, in Sacramento. “We are grinding on this,” said McCarter. “Anderson is a massive undertaking. It’s our #1 most important project.” That same year, crews opened two huge new tunnels on the San Mateo Coast, at Devil’s Slide, allowing drivers on Highway 1 to head through the Coast Range to Pacifica, and ending decades of road closures due to rockslides. Named for the late congressman Tom Lantos, they are the second- and third-longest road tunnels in California at 4,149 feet northbound, and 4,008 feet southbound.
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