San Antonio Dam (National ID CA00813) is an earthen dam on the San Antonio River in Monterey County, California in the United States . The dam impounds Lake San Antonio , a reservoir with a capacity of 350,000 acre-feet (430,000,000 m), located west of Camp Roberts .
3-666: San Antonio Dam was completed in 1965. The dam is accessible from Exit 252 of U.S. Route 101 by taking Jolon Road to Nacimiento Lake Drive to Vista Road. Water released from San Antonio Dam travels down the San Antonio River to join the Salinas River on its way to Monterey Bay . Another dam with the same name is located on San Antonio Creek in San Bernardino County, California . San Antonio River (California) The San Antonio River
6-615: Is a 58.8-mile-long (94.6 km) river in southern Monterey County, California . The river was used as an irrigation source for Mission San Antonio de Padua . The river travels southeast from its headwaters in the Santa Lucia Range in the Los Padres National Forest and into Lake San Antonio . This is a reservoir behind the San Antonio Dam , an earth-fill dam on the river that forms
9-489: The largest lake in the county. Downstream from the dam, the river travels east until it joins the Salinas River . The Nacimiento River , which feeds Lake Nacimiento and is also a Salinas River tributary, parallels the San Antonio River's path several miles to the southwest. After depletion by 19th century fur trappers, California golden beaver ( Castor canadensis subauratus ) have expanded their range from
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