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Santa Cruz (Spanish for "Holy Cross") is the largest city and the county seat of Santa Cruz County, in Northern California.As of the 2020 census, the city population was 62,956. [10]
Much of the upper reaches of this watershed are quite beautiful in their natural forest setting, while the lower reach is accessible to the large population of Santa Cruz. In 1987 the city of Santa Cruz retained ROMA, a San Francisco design firm, to develop a design concept plan for incorporating the natural elements of the river into the urban ...
The San Lorenzo River starts at its headwaters above Boulder Creek, it runs through the valley on its way to the city of Santa Cruz, where it then flows into the Monterey Bay and the Pacific Ocean and also supplies the city of Santa Cruz with its drinking water. Much of the river valley is rural and wooded and other areas have neighborhoods and ...
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 creek begins in the Santa Cruz mountains near the Santa Clara/Santa Cruz County border, just south of the peak Loma Prieta. It then flows northwesterly to Lake Elsman, a reservoir owned by the San Jose Water Company, [4] then on to Holy City and Chemeketa Park, then northward into the Lexington Reservoir.
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]
The Arana Gulch open space is part of the "greenbelt" established in 1979 to mostly surround the city. The Arana Creek watershed is a groundwater resource for Santa Cruz County. The open space includes meadows (former farmland), California oak woodland, and the riparian zones along Arana Gulch and Hagemann Gulch.
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 ...