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Big Canyon Creek is an 8 miles (13 km) long tributary of Putah Creek. Its mouth is at an elevation of 1,040 feet (320 m). Big Canyon Creek supplies rainfall to the Putah Creek drainage with very little snowmelt or base flow. It does not contain any reservoirs to provide surface storage and
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Big Canyon Road (107) runs along the lower part of the creek. There is a 24.6 feet (7.5 m) steel bridge that carries the road across the creek below the point where it is joined by Bad Creek. It was built in 1930 and reconstructed in 1993. As of
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during the summer months. Putah Creek is just a small stream in the summertime. St. Helena Creek, Anderson Creek, Dry Creek run just small streams. Big Canyon Creek runs more water, I think, than all the rest".
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is an elongated rolling highland. It forms a topographical divide separating Big Canyon Creek to the east from
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is beside the creek, near its head. William Robert
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structure had been appraised as "basically intolerable requiring high priority of replacement".
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regulate flows. In 1912 Warden R. L. Sinkey wrote of Putah Creek, "Becomes dry anywhere below
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in Big Canyon Creek to generate electricity for the resort.
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913:"The Springs That Made Lake County Famous: Adams Springs"
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885:Shapovalov, Leo (April 1947),
378:←Mill Creek (Big Canyon Creek)
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1015:Mahnke Peak
728:Baughn 2017
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549:←Malo Creek
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329:Putah Creek
280:Tributaries
222:Putah Creek
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149:Putah Creek
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1120:Categories
1095:Napa River
1075:Cold Creek
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878:2021-05-04
859:2021-04-29
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801:2021-05-04
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566:38°49′54″N
509:38°50′55″N
492:←Bad Creek
452:38°50′59″N
395:38°51′02″N
338:38°48′22″N
166:38°48′22″N
111:38°51′29″N
968:Mountains
228:Hydrology
608:See also
242:Location
737:Sources
307:Elev ft
299:Length
290:GNIS id
235:Winters
796:Mindat
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439:235198
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382:228668
364:1,040
325:219152
310:Elev m
304:Coords
293:Parent
287:Stream
204:Length
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92:Source
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765:3 May
620:Notes
296:Mouth
144:Mouth
16:River
767:2021
601:3.2
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