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The watershed is approximately 1,300 square miles (3,400 km 2) and covers portions of Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, San Benito, and Monterey Counties. [17] The Pajaro River mainstem begins just west of San Felipe Lake , [ 18 ] also called Upper Soap Lake, which is a permanent natural lake formed by the confluence of Pacheco Creek , Tequisquita ...
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]
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 Vicente Creek watershed drains 4,500 acres (18 km 2). [6] Its waters rise at 2,520 feet (770 m) elevation just north of and below the peak of Ben Lomond Mountain in the Santa Cruz Mountains. The creek descends the west-facing slopes of the mountains, picking up one major tributary, Mill Creek.
The Los Gatos Creek runs 24 miles (39 km) in California through Santa Clara Valley Water District's Guadalupe Watershed from the Santa Cruz Mountains northward through the Santa Clara Valley until its confluence with the Guadalupe River in downtown San Jose. The Guadalupe River then continues onward into San Francisco Bay.
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 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]
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 ...