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The Sweetwater River is a 55-mile (89 km) long stream in San Diego County, California.From its headwaters high in the Cuyamaca Mountains, the river flows generally southwest, first through rugged hinterlands but then into the urban areas surrounding its mouth at San Diego Bay.
This map of United States water resource subregion hydrologic units updated boundaries to include the ocean as well as the portions of the basins that cross international borders For the use of hydrologists, ecologists, and water-resource managers in the study of surface water flows in the United States, the United States Geological Survey ...
The San Diego Creek drains a roughly rectangular shaped watershed of 112.2 square miles (291 km 2) in central Orange County.Although most of the watershed is located in Irvine, it also includes parts of the incorporated cities of Aliso Viejo, Laguna Hills, Laguna Woods, Lake Forest, Orange, Santa Ana, and Tustin.
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.
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.
Coyote Creek is a principal tributary of the San Gabriel River [3] in northwest Orange County and southeast Los Angeles County, California.It drains a land area of roughly 41.3 square miles (107 km 2) covering nine major cities, including Brea, Buena Park, Cerritos, Fullerton, Hawaiian Gardens, La Habra, Lakewood, La Palma, and Long Beach. [4]
In 1969, there was a flood in the Tujunga Wash. Water flowed down a formerly inactive channel and entered a large gravel pit 15 to 23 m (49 to 75 ft) deep. The channel bed degraded by about 4 meters (13 ft), leading to the failure of three highway bridges and the loss of seven homes.
The Salt Springs State Game Refuge is located along the Mokelumne River near Salt Springs Reservoir. There are also significant private holdings in the upper basin including commercial timber land and protected watershed areas administered by the East Bay Municipal Utility District, which diverts urban and industrial water from Pardee Reservoir.