The High Lakes Recreation Area of Santiam State Forest, including popular Rhody Lake, reopened this month after being closed ...

How full is San Luis Reservoir? About 40 miles east of Gilroy and Highway 101 in Merced County, San Luis Reservoir is the fifth largest reservoir in the state.

The federal government and California water agencies announced an agreement to raise a dam and expand San Luis Reservoir, increasing its water-storing capacity.

Water managers in the South Bay entered into a deal that will add a huge amount to their storage by expanding the San Luis Reservoir in Merced County.

One of the Bay Area’s largest reservoirs is about to get bigger, thanks to a partnership between local water agencies and the federal government. The San Luis Reservoir Dam, between Los Banos and ...

SAN LUIS RESERVOIR, Calif. - An agreement to expand a reservoir just south of the Bay Area is expected to provide a big boost to California's water supply.

San Luis Reservoir between Gilroy and Los Banos, already the fifth largest reservoir in the state, San Luis would expand by 130,000 acre-feet — enough water for 650,000 people a year.

The foothills near the Basalt Day Use area is seen with the B.F. Sisk Dam in the background at San Luis Reservoir Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024 near Los Banos.

Much of that, including both federal and state contracts, is already stored at San Luis Reservoir and arrives at treatment facilities via a 5.3-mile tunnel through Pacheco Pass.

$2 billion seismic upgrade, expansion of Sisk Dam at San Luis Reservoir seen as “least worst” water storage project by environmentalists.