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"Special treatment areas" means, for purposes of this chapter, those areas defined as special treatment areas in Section 895.1 of Title 14 of the California * * * Code of Regulations, as in effect on January 1, 2004, as that definition applies to wild and scenic river segments designated from time to time in Section 5093.54, and also includes ...
The North Fork Eel River is the smallest of four major tributaries of the Eel River in northwestern California in the United States. It drains a rugged wilderness area of about 286 square miles (740 km 2 ) [ 2 ] in the California Coast Ranges , and flows through national forests for much of its length.
Sespe Creek (Chumash: S'eqp'e', "Kneecap" [4]) is a stream, some 61 miles (98 km) long, [5] in Ventura County, southern California, in the Western United States. [6] The creek starts at Potrero Seco in the eastern Sierra Madre Mountains, and is formed by more than thirty tributary streams of the Sierra Madre and Topatopa Mountains, before it empties into the Santa Clara River in Fillmore.
The river travels 63 miles (101 km) from its headwaters on the west side of the North Coast Range to its confluence with the Eel River, about 14 miles (23 km) upstream from the Pacific Ocean and 17 miles (27 km) south of Eureka, California. The river's elevation is over 5,000 feet (1,500 m) at its source and only 60 feet (18 m) when it merges ...
The Fall River Conservancy and the Fall River Resource Conservation District both work to restore the river. The former has worked with the University of California Davis to study the trout and identified two distinct sub-populations, one adapted to the colder winter flows of Bear Creek and one adapted to the more constant temperature spring-fed waters of Spring Creek and the Fall River ...
Draining 275 square miles (710 km 2), the Arroyo Seco River is the last major tributary of the Salinas River that enters before it reaches the Pacific.Most of the watershed lies in the rugged coastal range areas southwest of Greenfield and Soledad, and the drainage divide runs along the crest of the Santa Lucia Mountains to the west and the lower Sierra de Salinas to the northeast.
The original Wild Rivers water park was open from 1986 to 2011, when it closed to make way for housing development. Sign up for Essential California for news, features and recommendations from the ...
By average discharge, the Smith is the largest river system in California that flows freely along its entire course. [8] The highly variable annual flow is approximately 3,746 cu ft/s (106.1 m 3 /s), with an average monthly high of 8,432 cu ft/s (238.8 m 3 /s) in January, and an average low of 336 cu ft/s (9.5 m 3 /s) in September.