Zayante Creek
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Zayante Creek (Longitude: -122.0186; Latitude: 37.1354) is a major 6.7 mile long stream within the San Lorenzo River watershed in Santa Cruz County, California, USA. The U.S. Government has designated Zayante Creek as impaired with respect to sediment.[1] Lompico Creek, a tributary of Zayante Creek, is listed for impairment by pathogens.[2] In the period 1998 to 2000 a restoration project was conducted for this stream to improve anadromous fish passage, rearing and spawning.[3] There has been a permanent U.S. Geological Survey gauging station on Zayante Creek which has operated since the year 1959; the mean altitude of the Zayante Basin, carved within the western slopes of the Santa Cruz Mountains, is 1000 feet.[4] Significant tributaries to Zayante Creek are Lompico Creek and Bean Creek.
Soils formations along the mainstem of Zayante Creek by axcending altitude are: Monterey Formation, Zayante Formation, Vaqueros Sandstone and Lompico Sandstone;[5] about midway through its course, Zayante Creek is bisected by the Zayante Fault. Several notable ecological features are present in the Zayante Creek watershed, including the occurrence of a rare forest type: Maritime Coast Range Ponderosa Pine forest, which contains two endangered arthropods. Regarding specific avafauna species there are sightings of Townsend's Warbler[6]
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- ^ Federal impairment classification for Zayante Creek
- ^ Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board: Impairment Listing for Lompico Creek (2006)
- ^ State of California Zayante Creek Restoration Project
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Stream Gauge Summary
- ^ C.Michael Hogan, Leda Patmore, David Crimp et al., San Lorenzo Basin Groundwater Recharge and Water Quality Study, Earth Metrics Incorporated, Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments, July 7, 1978
- ^ David Suddjian, Santa Cruz Birds, Albatross, March/April 1993 (Vol 38, No. 4)
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