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33-475: San Mateo Creek can refer to two creeks in California: San Mateo Creek (San Francisco Bay Area) San Mateo Creek (Southern California) [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change

66-555: A private company , in the form of the Spring Valley Water Company , and eventually was deeded under the ownership and protection of the city of San Francisco . This local protection has ensured the survival of important species in the area, and a set of trails in Crystal Springs Park allows visitors to view the reservoir and the local wildlife. There are giant rainbow trout and bass in the lake. Due to decisions by

99-538: A second time on November 12, on their return trip. Padre Palóu , on an expedition from Mission San Carlos Borromeo (Carmel) to explore the western side of San Francisco Bay led by Captain Fernando Rivera , renamed Portola's Cañada de San Francisco to Cañada de San Andrés on November 30, 1774, it being the feast day of St. Andrew . Palou's name was later applied to the San Andreas Fault (misspelled) when

132-405: A wetland marsh then joins the reservoir at Adobe Point. The northern reservoir, Lower Crystal Springs Reservoir, is fed by San Mateo Creek and San Andreas Creek at its north end. It also receives water from Upper Crystal Springs Reservoir via tunnels beneath Highway 92. Below Crystal Springs Dam , lower San Mateo Creek receives limited flows from Lower Crystal Springs Reservoir and descends to

165-647: Is covered by the Upper Crystal Springs Lake located 2 mi (3.2 km) south of Crystal Springs Dam on Cañada Road. The Laguna Grande place name is also shown on the 1840s diseño del Rancho Cañada de Raymundo and an 1856 plat of the Rancho de las Pulgas . The two Crystal Springs lakes and San Andreas Lake used to be known as Spring Valley Lakes for the Spring Valley Water Company which owned them. The Spring Valley Water Company named

198-593: Is now crossed by Highway 92 . In addition to San Mateo Creek and its San Andreas Creek and Laguna Creek tributaries, the waters of Crystal Springs Reservoir consist of runoff from the eastern slopes of the Montara block of the Santa Cruz Mountains and imported Hetch Hetchy Aqueduct water deriving from the Sierra Nevada . The two Crystal Springs lakes and San Andreas Lake used to be known as Spring Valley Lakes for

231-630: The Portolà expedition descended what Portolà called the Cañada de San Francisco , now San Andreas Creek (or possibly San Mateo Creek). "Laguna Grande" is where the party camped (now covered by the Upper Crystal Springs Reservoir). The Laguna Grande place name is also shown on the 1840s diseño del Rancho Cañada de Raymundo and an 1856 plat. The campsite is marked by California Historical Marker No. 94 "Portola Expedition Camp". They camped here

264-597: The San Andreas Fault just to the west of the cities of San Mateo and Hillsborough , and I-280 . The lakes are part of the San Mateo Creek watershed. Crystal Springs Regional Trail runs along the reservoir. The original name of the southern or Upper Crystal Springs Reservoir was Laguna Grande , a natural lake that disappeared with the creation of the reservoir, which has a California Historical Marker ("NO. 94 Ohlone-Portolá Heritage Trail, Laguna Grande). The Portolà Expedition of 1769 camped here on November 5th. From

297-773: The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), Crystal Springs Reservoir is not open to the public. A considerable biodiversity of flora and fauna exist in the vicinity of the reservoir, which is located within the California Floristic Province . Among these species are a number of rare and endangered species including Acanthomintha duttonii or San Mateo thornmint, Hesperolinon congestum (Marin Dwarf Flax) and Eriophyllum latilobum or San Mateo Woolly Sunflower. A pair of Bald eagles ( Haliaeetus leucocephalus ) built

330-741: The 1850s and 1860s. He also collected steelhead trout ( Oncorhynchus mykiss ) from the creek. Historical records indicate that Chinook salmon ( Oncorhynchus tshawytscha ) occurred in at least two San Francisco Bay Area watersheds, San Mateo Creek in San Mateo County and San Leandro Creek in Alameda County. Fog drip may play a key role in the precipitation in the upper watershed. On Cahill Ridge, just west of San Mateo Creek and east of Pilarcitos Creek , at an altitude of 1,000 feet, Oberlander measured fog drip beneath tanoak ( Lithocarpus densiflorus ), coast redwood and three Douglas fir trees,

363-650: The Bay. In 1924, culverts were built through Upper Crystal Springs Dam to hydraulically link Upper and Lower Crystal Springs Reservoirs. Part of the water in the reservoirs comes from local precipitation and the rest is piped in from the Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park , as well as the Pilarcitos Creek watershed and Alameda Creek watershed . The entire reservoir was built and owned by

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396-617: The Colorado River." It is likely that de Anza had met the Ssalson tribe of Ohlone people. The records of the Mission San Francisco de Asís indicate that the Ssalson had three villages along San Mateo Creek and San Andreas Creek named Altagmu, Aleitac, and Uturbe. By 1794, the members of the tribe had moved to the mission. Shortly thereafter, the rest of the de Anza party – families, soldiers, and priests on their way to help establish

429-846: The Spring Valley Water Company which owned them. Lower Crystal Springs Reservoir now covers the town of Crystal Springs which grew up around a resort of the same name. From the Crystal Springs Dam San Mateo Creek flows generally northeast 8 km (5 mi) through San Mateo where it is partly intermittent and altered, to San Francisco Bay about 1.1 km (0.7 mi) west of the mouth of Seal Slough. This watercourse lies entirely within San Mateo County and flows generally eastward to discharge into San Francisco Bay . San Mateo Creek once hosted coho salmon ( Oncorhynchus kisutch ) as evidenced by specimens collected by Professor Alexander Agassiz of Harvard University in

462-488: The U.S. Government. There is one golf course that provides surface runoff to San Mateo Creek in the city of San Mateo, and Crystal Springs Golf Course that drains to the Crystal Springs Reservoir. Crystal Springs Reservoir Crystal Springs Reservoir is a pair of artificial lakes located in the northern Santa Cruz Mountains of San Mateo County, California , situated in the rift valley created by

495-412: The arroyo of San Andreas and to another, that of San Matheo, where it descends to empty into the estuary. There I found in our camp nearly all the men of the village, very friendly, content, and joyful, putting themselves out to serve us in every way, a circumstance which I have noted in all the natives seen from the 26th up to now, but one which I had not experienced theretofore since leaving the people of

528-419: The canyon. Laguna Grande was submerged when an earthen dam (this was the first Crystal Springs Dam) was constructed in 1877, forming Upper Crystal Springs Reservoir. The old earthen dam became a causeway between Upper and Lower Crystal Springs Reservoirs when the latter was formed by Herman Schussler's concrete Crystal Springs Dam, which dammed up San Mateo Creek in 1888 to form the lower reservoir. The causeway

561-542: The fault was discovered to be the creator of the valley. In 1776, the expedition led by Captain Juan Bautista de Anza , rather than stay on the coast as Portola had done, followed an inland route from Monterey, California established by Pedro Fages in 1770. De Anza descended the Santa Clara Valley to San Francisco Bay and followed its western shoreline up the peninsula to San Francisco. The de Anza party selected

594-421: The journal of Fray Juan Crespí, "We stopped close to a lake where there are countless ducks, geese, and so forth, in the same hollow at a half past one in the afternoon; and we have made three leagues in four hour hours and a half. Here in this hollow tracks have been encountered of large livestock, which some said were made by bears; others, by buffalo ( elk ). Also a great many deer have been seen together, while

627-591: The lakes, the Spring Valley Lakes, after the company. The original Spring Valley was between Mason and Taylor Streets, and Washington and Broadway Streets in San Francisco, where the water company started. When the company went south for more water, the Spring Valley name was carried south too. Lower Crystal Springs Reservoir now covers the town of Crystal Springs which grew up around a little resort town of

660-405: The latter 125 feet tall. He found that the trees most exposed produced the most precipitation and in five weeks of measurement (July 20-August 28, 1951) fog drip below the tanoak produced 59 inches of precipitation, more than the total annual precipitation on nearby grasslands and chaparral. The Douglas fir produced 7-17 inches of fog drip and appeared to provide unique conditions supporting

693-485: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=San_Mateo_Creek&oldid=933107860 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages San Mateo Creek (San Francisco Bay Area) After discovering San Francisco Bay from Sweeney Ridge on November 4, 1769,

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726-481: The lower (northern) reservoir in 1888. The causeway is now crossed by Highway 92 . Laguna Creek flows north through the Filoli estate and has tributaries that descend from the western slope of Edgewood County Park and the eastern slope of the Santa Cruz Mountains . In addition to Laguna Creek, Upper Crystal Springs Reservoir is fed by Adobe Gulch which descends from Cahill Ridge south of and parallel to Highway 92 into

759-460: The lowest reach San Mateo Creek becomes tidal and discharges to San Francisco Bay between Ryder Park and Seal Point Park. The creek mouth area contains slough and wetland habitats including mudflats that are known habitat of the endangered California clapper rail . San Mateo Creek was federally designated in 2002 as a section 303 impaired watershed for the substance diazinon ; however, diazinon has been banned for golf course use by

792-642: The northwest arm of Lower Crystal Springs Reservoir . The northeast arm of Lower Crystal Springs Reservoir is formed by San Mateo Creek's tributary, San Andreas Creek which descends to the Reservoir southeast along the San Andreas Rift . Another tributary, Laguna Creek , flows northwards from Woodside with its source on Edgewood County Park and Natural Preserve, and historically fed Laguna Grande and then joined San Mateo Creek just upstream from Crystal Springs Canyon, where San Mateo Creek turned east to flow through

825-565: The orchids giant helleborine ( Epipactis gigantea ) and phantom orchid ( Cephalanthera austiniae ), since these plants were found exclusively in these moist ridge tops. The upper reach of the lower watershed of San Mateo Creek below Crystal Springs Dam consists of open space and sparsely developed residential areas of the cities of Hillsborough and San Mateo, California . This upper reach consists of closed canopy California oak woodland and serpentine grassland . The creek roughly parallels Crystal Springs Road through this section. Due to

858-454: The presidio and mission – also camped here for three days, June 24–27, 1776. A plaque labelled "California State Historical Landmark No. 47 Anza Expedition Camp" is located at Arroyo Court, one block west on West 3rd Avenue, San Mateo. San Mateo Creek's source elevation is at almost 1,000 feet on Sweeney Ridge from which it flows southeasterly (in a valley east of Cahill Ridge and west of Sawyer Ridge) for 11.2 km (7 mi) before entering

891-484: The same name, founded in mid-19th century and located just northwest of the present-day dam. The Crystal Springs Hotel tract was constructed around the 1860s on leased land, located 4 mi (6.4 km) from the San Mateo train depot and along a stagecoach stop, and around this hotel a small town developed including a dairy and farms. The land leased for the hotel was owned by Spring Valley Water Company . In 1875,

924-587: The scouts aver that when they explore here, they saw whole bands of deer, and counted so many as fifty deer together in one. As we were upon the point of setting out from the spot, three very well-behaved heathens came over from the villages here, seeking us out laden with a good share of black pies and a sort of cherries that they made a present of, and they followed us along well pleased, giving us to understand we should go to their village [and] they will give us food. (A great many madroños, small and large, have been met with during these two days' march, laden with fruits

957-521: The sites for Mission San Francisco de Asís ( Mission Dolores ) and the Presidio of San Francisco . De Anza picked up Portola's trail at San Francisquito Creek , following the Cañada de San Andrés north from there. On the return to Monterey, the party camped on the banks of San Mateo Creek on March 29, 1776. In de Anza's diary on March 29, 1776, he wrote: "Night having fallen, at a quarter past six I went down to

990-709: The size of so many beads off our rosaries.)" The Expedition found the native people to be most gracious, offering food and guidance. The Lamchins were a large group, probably about 350 people. Their lands in the south-central part of the Peninsula included the present cities of Redwood City and Woodside , as well as the Phleger Estate portion of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area . Their known villages, Cachanigtac, Guloisnistac, Oromstac, and Supichom, cannot be precisely located. Today Laguna Grande

1023-552: The town of Crystal Springs lost its population and business and by 1887, the location of the town was underwater because of the dam construction. There is speculation if any of the town structures were left prior to the dam completion, however according to a 1922 publication by the Spring Valley Water Company, "In the end, the entire 35 sq mi (91 km ) of catchment area were swept clean of all human habitation." The entire reservoir consists of two different reservoir lakes. The southern lake, Upper Crystal Springs Reservoir,

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1056-410: The unusual microclimate and presence of abundant serpentine there are an unusual number of rare plants in the upper catchment basin. The middle reach consists of increasingly dense single family and multifamily residential land use along with some adjacent school, park and commercial uses. In the lower phase of the middle reach, San Mateo Creek is fully culverted through downtown San Mateo . In

1089-446: Was formed when a tributary, Laguna Creek (or Lake Creek ), which joined Laguna Grande at the south end, was submerged by construction of an earthen dam (this was the first Crystal Springs Dam) in 1877. The old earthen dam became a causeway between Upper and Lower Crystal Springs Reservoirs when the latter was formed by Herman Schussler's 150 ft (46 m) tall concrete Crystal Springs Dam , which dammed up San Mateo Creek to form

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