page_title: Anderson Lake (California)
section_title: San Jose flooding
hierarchical_section_title: Anderson Lake (California) / History / San Jose flooding
caption_attribution_description: English: Anderson Lake (or Reservoir), above Morgan Hill and San José, California, two weeks after its overflow flooded neighborhoods in San Jose on Feb. 21.
context_page_description: Anderson Lake, also known as Anderson Reservoir, is an artificial lake in Santa Clara County, California, United States, near Morgan Hill. The reservoir is formed by the damming of Coyote Creek just below its confluence with San Felipe Creek. A 4,275-acre county park surrounds the reservoir and provides limited fishing, picnicking, and hiking activities. Although swimming is prohibited, boating, water-skiing and jet-skiing are permitted in the reservoir.
  The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment has issued a safety advisory for any fish caught in Anderson Lake due to elevated levels of mercury and PCBs.
context_section_description: On February 21, 2017 during the 2017 California floods, the reservoir reached as high as 104% of capacity, creating a large flow over the spillway into Coyote Creek, which overflowed and flooded the Rock Springs/Summerside, Olinder, Naglee Park, Roosevelt, Wooster-Tripp and Berryessa neighborhoods of San Jose along US Highway 101 between the reservoir and the south San Francisco Bay.
caption: Anderson Reservoir, above Morgan Hill and San Jose, California, near capacity, two weeks after its overflow flooded neighborhoods in San Jose.
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