Battle Creek (California)
| Battle Creek | |
| River | |
 Battle Creek
|
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| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| State | California |
| Tributaries | |
| - left | South Fork Battle Creek, Spring Branch Battle Creek |
| - right | North Fork Battle Creek |
| Source | Confluence of North Fork and South Fork |
| - location | Near Shingletown |
| - elevation | 868 ft (265 m) |
| - coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Mouth | Sacramento River |
| - location | Southeast of Anderson |
| - elevation | 338 ft (103 m) |
| - coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Length | 47 mi (76 km) [1] |
| Volume | 1 cu ft (0 m3) |
| Basin | 365 sq mi (945 km2) |
| Discharge | for USGS gage #11376550, 5.7 miles (9.2 km) from the mouth |
| - average | 501 cu ft/s (14 m3/s) |
| - max | 24,700 cu ft/s (699 m3/s) |
| - min | 102 cu ft/s (3 m3/s) |
Battle Creek is a 16.6-mile-long (26.7 km)[2] creek located in Shasta and Tehama Counties, California. It is a major tributary to the Sacramento River.
The creek is part of a $67 million Chinook salmon restoration project, a PG&E Battle Creek Hydroelectric Project. Many adjacent properties hold conservation easements protecting them from development.
In addition to the Chinook salmon, the creek has steelhead, rainbow, and brown trout. Counterintuitively, first-year data from a post-wildfire soil erosion study show that control sites disturbed only by fire produced substantially more water runoff and soil erosion than did sites that received post-wildfire salvage logging. These results have important implications for the use, treatment, and restoration of post-wildfire landscapes, suggesting that salvage logging can reduce soil erosion.[3]
References
- ↑ Including the South Fork
- ↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed March 10, 2011
- ↑ James, Cajun "Post Wildfire Salvage Logging, Soil Erosion, and Sediment Delivery, Ponderosa Fire, Battle Creek Watershed, Northern California"
