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McKinleyville consists of several watershed areas. The north bank of the Mad River is the farthest watershed to the south. The next watershed to the north is Mill Creek, then Widow White Creek, Norton Creek, Strawberry Creek, Patrick Creek and finally the farthest watershed to the north is the south bank of the Little River.
The Mad River (Wiyot: Baduwa't [4]) is a river in upper Northern California.It flows for 113 miles (182 km) [3] in a roughly northwest direction through Trinity County and then Humboldt County, draining a 497-square-mile (1,290 km 2) watershed into the Pacific Ocean north of the town of Arcata near [California Redwood Coast-Humboldt County Airport [5]] in McKinleyville.
Watershed management is the study of the relevant characteristics of a watershed aimed at the sustainable distribution of its resources and the process of creating and implementing plans, programs and projects to sustain and enhance watershed functions that affect the plant, animal, and human communities within the watershed boundary. [1]
Watershed delineation is the process of identifying the boundary of a watershed, also referred to as a catchment, drainage basin, or river basin.It is an important step in many areas of environmental science, engineering, and management, for example to study flooding, aquatic habitat, or water pollution.
Map of California's interconnected water system, including all eleven reservoirs over 1,000,000 acre-feet (1.2 km 3) as well as selected smaller ones.. This is a list of the largest reservoirs, or man-made lakes, in the U.S. state of California.
Water travels from Lake Oroville to the Sacramento River. At Harvey O. Banks Delta Pumping Plant, which pulls SWP water into the Bethany Reservoir, around 2.2 million acre-feet (2.7 km 3) are extracted from the Delta each year. [52] Water that flows to the south end of the San Joaquin Valley must be pumped over the Tehachapi Mountains.
Sustainable yield: the maximum quantity of water calculated over long-term conditions in the basin, including any temporary excess that can be withdrawn over a year without an undesirable result; Sustainable groundwater management: the management and use of groundwater that can be maintained without causing an undesirable result.
"The Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers Watershed Council" p. 20-21 in Conservation Geography: Case Studies in GIS, Computer Mapping, and Activism. (ed. Charles L. Convis, Jr.) Redlands, CA: ESRI Press. ISBN 978-1-58948-024-7; Bullard, Kathleen (2005). "Riparian Pocket Parks as a Means for Physically and Conceptually Connecting People with ...