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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]
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 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 ...
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]
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 Branciforte watershed consists of 6,231 acres (25.22 km 2), approximately 70 percent of which is covered with mixed evergreen forest, conifer forest and other undisturbed habitats. [ 4 ] In 2001, a stream restoration project was funded by the State of California to remove barriers to anadromous fish migration in Branciforte Creek, with ...
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 ...
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]