Zayante Creek

Zayante Creek (Longitude: -122.0186; Latitude: 37.1354) is a major convert|6.7|mi|km|0|adj=on long 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. [ [http://oaspub.epa.gov/tmdl/enviro.control?p_list_id=CAR3041202220020124155410 Federal impairment classification for Zayante Creek] ] Lompico Creek, a tributary of Zayante Creek, is listed for impairment by pathogens. [ [http://www.swrcb.ca.gov/centralcoast/TMDL/documents/PrgRptLompicoCrPathMay2006.pdf Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board: Impairment Listing for Lompico Creek (2006)] ] In the period 1998 to 2000 a restoration project was conducted for this stream to improve anadromous fish passage, rearing and spawning. [ [http://gis.ca.gov/catalog/BrowseRecord.epl?id=26664 State of California Zayante Creek Restoration Project] ] 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 convert|1000|ft|m|-2. [ [http://pubs.usgs.gov/wri/wri934076/stations/11160300.html U.S. Geological Survey Stream Gauge Summary] ] 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; [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] 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 [ [http://santacruzbirdclub.org/David's%20Articles/38-4.html David Suddjian, "Santa Cruz Birds", Albatross, March/April 1993 (Vol 38, No. 4)] ]

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ee also

*Branciforte Creek
*Carbonera Creek
*List of rivers in California