Windsor Creek

Windsor Creek

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name = Windsor Creek
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country = United States
state = California
region = Sonoma County
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tributary_left = Pool Creek
city = Windsor, California
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source_location = convert|5|mi|km|0|lk=on|abbr=on southeast of Healdsburg, California
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source_long_d = 122 | source_long_m = 47 | source_long_s = 38 | source_long_EW = W
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mouth = Mark West Creek
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Windsor Creek is a southward-flowing stream in Sonoma County, California, USA which rises near Healdsburg, California and feeds into Mark West Creek west of the Sonoma County Airport. Its waters reach the Pacific Ocean by way of the Russian River.

Course

Windsor Creek rises about convert|5|mi|km|0|abbr=on southeast of Healdsburg. It descends southward into the town of Windsor, paralleling Brooks Road to Hiram Lewis Park. It parallels Brooks Road South to U.S. Route 101, crossing under the freeway at milepost 29.5. It continues southwest through farmland to a confluence with Pool Creek east of Pratt Road. From there, it flows south to empty into Mark West Creek about convert|3|mi|km|0|abbr=on northeast of Forestville.

Watershed

Pollution

The Community Clean Water Institute (CCWI) monitors pollutants in Windsor Creek and other Sonoma County streams. Their sampling showed that Windsor creek exceeded the North Coast Basin Plan Objectives for conductivity and dissolved oxygen in 2006.cite web|url=http://www.ccwi.org/us/2006annualreportpdf.pdf|title=Annual Report 2006|accessdate=2008-06-12] CCWI has also issued alerts for nitrates in Windsor Creek.cite web|url=http://www.ccwi.org/index.html|title=Community Clean Water Institute|accessdate=2008-06-12]

Bridges

Windsor Creek is crossed by at least five bridges:cite web|url=http://nationalbridges.com/|title=National Bridge Inventory Database]
* at Old Redwood Highway, a convert|72|ft|m|0|adj=on prestressed concrete span built in 1995,
* at Windsor Road north of Wilson Lane, a convert|67|ft|m|0|adj=on concrete slab built in 1967,
* at Mark West Station Road, an convert|38|ft|m|0|adj=on concrete slab built in 1976,
* at U.S. Route 101, a convert|35|ft|m|0|adj=on concrete culvert built in 1962, and
* at Conde Lane east of Bell Avenue, a convert|26|ft|m|0|adj=on concrete culvert built in 1995.

Footnotes

External links

* [http://www.lagunafoundation.org Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation]

ee also

*List of watercourses in the San Francisco Bay Area


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