Zayante Creek

 ( Rivers Of Santa Cruz County, California ) 

Zayante Creek (Ohlone: Sayant) is a 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. Federal impairment classification for Zayante Creek Lompico Creek, a tributary of Zayante Creek, is listed for impairment by . 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. State of California Zayante Creek Restoration Project There has been a permanent U.S. Geological Survey stream gauge 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 . U.S. Geological Survey Stream Gauge Summary Significant tributaries to Zayante Creek are Lompico Creek and Bean Creek.

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Geology Soils formations along the mainstem of Zayante Creek by ascending 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.

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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. David Suddjian, Santa Cruz Birds, Albatross, March/April 1993 (Vol 38, No. 4)

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See also

• List of rivers in California

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