San Pablo Reservoir

The earthen San Pablo Dam, built in 1919, is located at the El Sobrante end of the reservoir, above Kennedy Grove. The reservoir has a total capacity of 38,600 acre feet (47,600,000 m3) and a watershed of 23.37 square miles (60.5 square kilometres). A water tunnel runs under the hills to the west from the reservoir to a pumping plant in Kensington. The San Pablo Dam Road runs along the west side of the reservoir. EBMUD's Briones Reservoiris in the hills southeast of the San Pablo Reservoir and drains into the reservoir.