San Juan Creek

Geobox River
name = San Juan Creek
native_name =
other_name = San Juan Rivercite web | url=Gnis3|273492 | title=San Juan Creek | work=Geographic Names Information System | publisher=United States Geological Survey | accessdate=2008-02-21 ]

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image_caption = Hikers ford San Juan Creek below the hot springs, February 2008.
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country = USA
state = California
region = Orange County
region1 = Riverside County
length_imperial =
watershed_imperial = 133.9
discharge_location = Doheny Beach
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discharge_min_imperial =
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source_name = Santa Ana Mountains
source_lat_d = 33
source_lat_m = 36
source_lat_s = 49
source_lat_NS = N
source_long_d = 117
source_long_m = 26
source_long_s = 07
source_long_EW = W
source_elevation_imperial =
source_length_imperial =
mouth_name = Dana Point
mouth_lat_d = 33
mouth_lat_m = 27
mouth_lat_s = 42
mouth_lat_NS = N
mouth_long_d = 117
mouth_long_m = 41
mouth_long_s = 01
mouth_long_EW = W
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San Juan Creek is a stream in Orange County, California that consists of a catchment basin encompassing 133.9 square miles7.5 Minute Quadrangle Map, U.S. Geological Survey, San Juan Capistrano, 1968, photorevised 1981] citeweb | url=http://www.ocwatersheds.com/watersheds/sanjuan.asp | title=Orange County watersheds: San Juan Creek ] . Its mainstem rises in the Santa Ana Mountains, in the Trabuco Ranger District of the Cleveland National Forest. From here, it parallels Ortega Highway as it winds west and south through San Juan Canyon, where it is joined by numerous small tributaries, and is joined by Arroyo Trabuco and Oso Creek as it passes through San Juan Capistrano. It flows into the Pacific Ocean at Doheny State Beach.

Once out of the foothills, San Juan Creek flows thorough the city of San Juan Capistrano where groundwater flow direction generally is from the northeast to the southwest. Groundwater in this basin at the San Juan Capistrano reach is considered goodEarth Metrics Incorporated, "Phase I Environmental Site Assessment for Rancho San Juan Capistrano, bounded by San Juan Creek Road, Paseo Ranchero and Camino San Jose Road, San Juan Capistrano, California", January 4, 1990] . Recent efforts of stream conservation have been in the planning stage including habitat conservation plan workU. S. Army Corps of Engineers, Jae Chung, "San Juan Creek/San Mateo Creek SAMP", 27 December 2007] .

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