Zayante Creek
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Zayante Creek (Ohlone: Sayant) is a Script error: No such module "convert". stream within the San Lorenzo River watershed in Santa Cruz County, California, United States. 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 Script error: No such module "convert"..[4] Significant tributaries to Zayante Creek are Lompico Creek and Bean Creek.
Geology
Soils formations along the mainstem of Zayante Creek by ascending 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.
Ecology
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]
See also
References
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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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