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Cascade Creek (220660) – flows from Santa Cruz County. Green Oaks Creek (224554) – flows from Santa Cruz County. Año Nuevo Creek (254567) – flows from Santa Cruz County. Cold Dip Creek (252424) – flows from Santa Cruz County. Finney Creek (223512) – flows from Santa Cruz County. Elliot Creek (223153) – flows from Santa Cruz County.
The Guadalupe River then continues onward into San Francisco Bay. The creek begins in the Santa Cruz mountains near the Santa Clara/Santa Cruz County border, just south of the peak Loma Prieta. It then flows northwesterly to Lake Elsman, a reservoir owned by the San Jose Water Company, [4] then on to Holy City and Chemeketa Park, then northward ...
The Conservancy awarded $4.5 million to the Resource Conservation District of Santa Cruz County in June 2003 to initiate Phase 1 of the IWRP [9] focused on pre-implementation activities including designs and permits for nearly 100 critical watershed restoration projects in Santa Cruz County [9] including expansion of rural roads, technical ...
The Save San Francisco Bay Association was started by citizens outraged by the dramatic loss of the bay through dikes and landfills as well as pollution. By the 1960s, filling had reduced the bay from 680 square miles (1,800 km 2 ) to just 400 square miles (1,000 km 2 ) of highly contaminated water.
It includes land in both Pima County and Santa Cruz County. [2] Plans for a National Heritage Area in the Santa Cruz watershed began in the early 2000s, [3] and were first introduced to state legislature in 2007. [4] The area was made official in 2019 after the passing of the John D. Dingell Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act. [5]
The largest rivers are the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, which drain into the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and thence to Suisun Bay. Other major rivers of the North Bay are the Napa River, the Petaluma River, the Gualala River, and the Russian River; the former two drain into San Pablo Bay, the latter two into the Pacific Ocean.
Coyote Watershed - This is Santa Clara Valley Water District's largest watershed and is approximately 322 square miles. The Penitencia Water Treatment Plant is located in this watershed and provides 270,000 customers with drinkable water. Guadalupe Watershed - This watershed holds the Lexington Reservoir and is approximately 170 square miles.
The headwaters of the San Francisquito watershed are in the Santa Cruz Mountains above Menlo Park, around 667 meters (2,188 ft) above the Bay. The upper watershed consists of at least 22 named creeks. [9] Including the upper reaches, the total watershed drains an area of 45 square miles (120 km 2). [10]