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The northern reservoir, Lower Crystal Springs Reservoir, is fed by San Mateo Creek and San Andreas Creek at its north end. It also receives water from Upper Crystal Springs Reservoir via tunnels beneath Highway 92. Below Crystal Springs Dam, lower San Mateo Creek receives limited flows from Lower Crystal Springs Reservoir and descends to the ...
The Crystal Springs Pump Station was built alongside the dam and gatehouse, and was designed to pump up water from the Crystal Springs Reservoir to nearby San Andreas Lake, where it could thereafter be distributed across San Francisco. Upon completion, the outlet works had a flow capacity of 25 million gallons per day.
Hermann Schussler A bronze plaque to honor Hermann Schussler located at the Crystal Springs Reservoir. Hermann Schüssler or Schussler (August 4, 1842 – April 27, 1919) was a German civil engineer and designer of dams, famous for designing the Crystal Springs Dam and the Comstock water system.
The next day they reached a "Laguna Grande" which today is covered by the Upper Crystal Springs Reservoir. The campsite is marked by California Historical Marker No. 94 "Portola Expedition Camp", located at Crystal Springs Dam, on Skyline Boulevard, 0.1 mi south of Crystal Springs Road. [2]
Crystal Springs Regional Trail map (Nov 2018) Starting from the south, the trail begins in a parking lot located just north of the Crystal Springs Dam.The southern end of the trail is located on the east side of Lower Crystal Springs Reservoir, near the intersection of Crystal Springs Road and State Route 35, [1] and it generally heads north parallel to the long axis (i.e. north-south) of the ...
Summer sunset at Crystal Springs. Crystal Springs Regional Trail is a county park located between San Bruno to the north and Woodside to the south. The park comprises three main trails: Crystal Springs Trail on the south, Sawyer Camp Trail in the middle, and San Andreas Trail in the northern section, which run along the eastern shore of San Andreas Lake in San Mateo County.
Laguna Creek is a perennial stream that flows northwesterly for 2.6 miles (4.2 km) [5] along the San Andreas Fault from Woodside in San Mateo County, California and, after crossing the Phleger Estate and Filoli, enters Upper Crystal Springs Reservoir, [6] where it is a historic tributary to San Mateo Creek. [7]
At that time San Bruno Creek was drawn as sharing headwaters with another creek which drained away from the bay into what is now called Crystal Springs Reservoir. [5] Later development of the reservoir by the city of San Francisco and lower reach urbanization by the city of San Bruno modified greatly the upper and lower reaches of the watercourse.