Don Pedro Reservoir

General data

Water type: Artificial lake
Progression: Tuolumne River -> San Joaquin River -> Suisun Bay -> Carquinez Strait -> San Pablo Bay -> San Francisco Bay -> Golden Gate strait -> Pacific Ocean -> Planet Earth
Climates: Temperate
Continents: North America
Countries: United States of America

Description

Don Pedro Reservoir, also known as Lake Don Pedro, is a reservoir formed by the construction of the Don Pedro Dam across the Tuolumne River in Tuolumne County, California, United States. The reservoir is located at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada. Communities nearby include Moccasin and La Grange. It is the sixth-largest reservoir in California. The reservoir inundates about 42 km of the Tuolumne River bed and covers an area of approximately 13,000 hectares (5,300 ha). The 2,030,000 acre⋅ft (2.50 km3) of stored water here originates from a watershed of over 1,500 square miles (3,900 km2). The California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment has issued safety advice for any fish caught in Don Pedro Reservoir due to elevated levels of mercury, PCBs, and other pollutants.

Cypriniformes - Carps

Common carp (Cyprinus carpio)

Smallmouth buffalo (Ictiobus bubalus)

Sacramento sucker (Catostomus occidentalis)

Salmoniformes - Salmons and Trouts

Rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)

Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha)

Sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka)

Centrarchiformes - Basses and sunfishes

Largemouth bass (Micropterus nigricans)

Spotted bass (Micropterus punctulatus)

Bluegill (Lepomis macrochirus)

Black crappie (Pomoxis nigromaculatus)

Siluriformes - Catfishes

Blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus)

Catches