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SANTA CLARA COUNTY, Calif. (KTVU) - The new Calaveras dam, on the border of Alameda and Santa Clara counties, is finally complete.

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission built the new dam to replace the existing Calaveras dam, because it was seismically unsafe.

The SFPUC is the owner and operator of the Hetch Hetchy Regional Water System.

“This is really a key component water supply for the 2.7 million customers that we serve in the Bay Area, which is San Francisco, San Mateo County, northern Santa Clara and even up to Alameda,” Steven Ritchie, Assistant General Manager of the Water Enterprise, of the SFPUC.

The old Calaveras dam was built in 1925.

In 2001, state dam officials inspected it and feared a collapse, which gave way to the Calaveras Dam Replacement Project. The SFPUC had to reduce the water levels by two thirds when construction crews broke ground in 2011.

“This is the largest local