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San Juan Creek, also called the San Juan River, [1] is a 29-mile (47 km) long stream in Orange and Riverside Counties, draining a watershed of 133.9 square miles (347 km 2). [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Its mainstem begins in the southern Santa Ana Mountains in the Cleveland National Forest .
The Trabuco watershed covers 54 square miles (140 km 2) in the northern and far eastern parts of the San Juan Creek watershed. Located in an arid coastal basin in southern Orange County, the creek's watershed comprises 40.3% of the 133.9-square-mile (347 km 2) San Juan Creek watershed.
The Council for Watershed Health (CWH) is a nonprofit environmental organization in the U.S. state of California. It was founded in 1996 by Dorothy Green to preserve, restore, and enhance the Los Angeles and San Gabriel River watersheds.
Map showing the main Orange County watersheds and watercourses. This is a list of rivers of Orange County, California, part of the Greater Los Angeles Area in Southern California.The Santa Ana River and San Gabriel River are the largest in Orange County; their extensive watersheds extend into neighboring Los Angeles, Riverside and San Bernardino Counties.
Oso Creek is an approximately 13.5-mile (21.7 km) tributary of Arroyo Trabuco in southern Orange County in the U.S. state of California. [1] Draining about 20 square miles (52 km 2) in a region north of the San Joaquin Hills and south of the Santa Ana Mountains, the creek is Trabuco Creek's largest tributary, and is part of the San Juan Creek drainage basin.
San Juan Hot Springs, also San Juan Capistrano Hot Springs, is a geothermal area in what is now Ronald W. Caspers Wilderness Park, near Cleveland National Forest, in Orange County, California in the United States. The springs were used by the Indigenous peoples of the region, and were an integral part of the dominion of Misíon San Juan ...
Scientists using seismic data tracked groundwater levels beneath the L.A. area. They found heavy rains in 2023 boosted shallow waters, but deep aquifers remain depleted.
In 1920 (105 years ago) (), the Los Angeles County Flood Control District built the first flood control dam in Los Angeles County at Devil's Gate gorge. [14] Named for a rock outcropping which resembles the face of a devil, this is the narrowest spot on the Arroyo Seco's course below Millard Canyon.