https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/09/29/anderson-dam-project-to-drain-santa-clara-countys-largest-reservoir-begins-thursday/

Santa Clara County’s largest reservoir will soon be nearly empty, and will stay that way for the next 10 years.

Under orders from federal dam regulators, the Santa Clara Valley Water District will begin a project to drain Anderson Reservoir on Thursday, the first step in a $576 million effort to tear down and rebuild its aging dam.