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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.
Permanente Creek is a 13.3-mile-long (21.4 km) [3] stream originating on Black Mountain in Santa Clara County, California, United States.Named by early Spanish explorers as Arroyo Permanente or Río Permanente because of its perennial flow, [1] the creek descends the east flank of Black Mountain then courses north through Los Altos and Mountain View, discharging into southwest San Francisco ...
It flows along San Felipe Road then through Evergreen Valley in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California where it was extended in 1970 to Lower Silver Creek. The creek was one of several that fed into the marshy area known as Laguna Socayre, where the Lake Cunningham flood retention basin is now.
The water that supplies the Santa Clara Valley Water District comes from various locations. Some of it comes from snowpack melt miles away. [3] This water is brought to the county through the many infrastructure projects in California, including the Federal Central Valley Project. [3] Santa Clara county also gets some of its water from recycled ...
As of 1931, there was a small natural spawning population of trout in select Santa Clara County streams, and it was believed the population was nearly extinct. [10] A 1952 California Department of Fish and Game document stated that substantial steelhead runs had not been seen in Los Gatos Creek since 1937, when agricultural pumps lowered the ...
The SCVWD, with advice from Santa Clara Basin Watershed Management Initiative (WMI) stakeholders, produced a stream stewardship plan for the Coyote Creek watershed in 2002. The plan includes over sixty projects to benefit flood protection, habitat enhancement, parks, and trails. The Silver Creek Fault runs generally parallel to Coyote Creek.
The Calero Reservoir. The Guadalupe River watershed consists of 170 square miles (400 km 2) of land within northern California's Santa Clara County.The surface runoff from this area drains into the Guadalupe River, its tributary streams, reservoirs or other bodies of water which all eventually gets carried into the San Francisco Bay (indicated below, with surrounding counties in red).
In 1889 the city of San Jose used Santa Clara County prison labor to build a 2,000 foot hand dug channel to formerly connect Canoas Creek at Almaden Road to the Guadalupe Creek in order to drain the marsh. [3] Canoas creek is prone to flash floods that have caused the Guadalupe Creek to flood downtown San Jose several times.