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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.
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]
The Santa Cruz River east of Nogales just after re-entering the United States from Mexico. The Santa Cruz has its headwaters in the high intermontane grasslands of the San Rafael Valley to the southeast of Patagonia, Arizona, between the Canelo Hills to the east and the Patagonia Mountains to the west, just north of the international border.
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.
The Laguna Creek watershed consists of mainstem Laguna Creek, Reggiardo Creek and several mostly unnamed tributaries that drain about 8 square miles (21 km 2).The creek arises at 2,210 feet (670 m) on the southern flank of Ben Lomond Mountain in the Santa Cruz Mountains. [7]
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]
Jan. 17—More than 1,000 homes in the Santa Cruz Valley could be flooded if an aging earthen dam were to fail, a risk that local, state and federal officials hope to fix by rebuilding the ...
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.