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The San Lorenzo River watershed drains 138 square miles (360 km 2). The Branciforte Creek watershed is a major sub-basin of the San Lorenzo catchment-basin. The Newell Creek tributary was dammed to create Loch Lomond, a reservoir which supplies drinking water to Santa Cruz, California.
Matadero Creek is a stream originating in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains in Santa Clara County, California, United States.The creek flows in a northeasterly direction for 8 miles (13 km) until it enters the Palo Alto Flood Basin, where it joins Adobe Creek in the Palo Alto Baylands at the north end of the Mayfield Slough, just before its culmination in southwest San Francisco Bay.
The Los Gatos Creek sub watershed drains 55.1 square miles (143 km 2). [18] Los Gatos Creek originates at 2,350 feet (720 m) on Loma Prieta Mountain in the Santa Cruz Mountains and flows west to the minor Williams Reservoir above Lake Elsman (also a reservoir formed by Austrian Dam), where it is joined from the north by Austrian Gulch. Its next ...
1954 Map of Waddell Creek, Scott Creek and San Lorenzo River. Scott Creek, also called Scotts Creek, [2] is a 12.2-mile-long (19.6 km) [3] stream and surfspot in Santa Cruz County, California. It is a few miles north of Davenport and a few miles south of Waddell Creek.
A U.S. Agriculture Department report on the Santa Cruz watershed said 1,038 people, 326 structures, agricultural lands and 15 roads and highways are within the dam's inundation or flood area.
Catchment area: 29.4 sq mi (76 km 2) Basin countries: United States: Managing agency: San Francisco Public Utilities Commission: Surface area: 1,323 acres (535 ha) Water volume: 57,910 acre⋅ft (71,430,000 m 3) Surface elevation: 85 m (279 ft) References: U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Crystal Springs Reservoir
Stevens Creek is a 20.9-mile-long (33.6 km) [4] stream in Santa Clara County, California.The creek originates in the Santa Cruz Mountains on the western flank of Black Mountain in the Monte Bello Open Space Preserve near the terminus of Page Mill Road at Skyline Boulevard.
The Pescadero-Butano watershed is the largest coastal watershed between the Golden Gate and the San Lorenzo River. The watershed's two principal streams, Pescadero Creek and Butano Creek, which have their confluence in Pescadero Marsh, drain 81 square miles (210 km 2 ) of the Santa Cruz Mountains. [ 5 ]