"The watershed is defined as a unit of natural or disturbed land on which all the water that falls (or emanates from springs) collects by gravity and fails to evaporate and runs off via a common outlet. The watershed is the basic unit of water supply."
- Peter E. Black, Watershed Hydrology, Second Edition, 1996.
There have been seven Watershed Assessment and Enhancement Plans developed for Santa Cruz County, they include:
Lower Pajaro
Aptos Creek
Soquel Creek
Arana Gulch
San Lorenzo River and Scotts Creek
Please note the size of the Adobe Acrobat ".pdf" file you are downloading.
Arana Gulch Watershed Enhancement Plan (another website)
- Lower Pajaro River Watershed Enhancement Plan - 22 MB
- San Lorenzo River Salmonid Enhancement Plan - 3 MB
- Aptos Creek Watershed Enhancement Plan - 11 MB
- Appendix A - Aptos Creek Fisheries Habitat Assessment - 2 MB
- Appendix B - Geomorphology & Sediment Source Assessment - 4 MB
- Appendix C - Hydro & Water Quality Final Report - 6 MB
- Appendix D - Aptos Creek Riparian Vegetation Assessment - 3 MB
- Appendix E - Aptos Watershed Large Woody Debris Recruitment Report - 1 MB
- Appendix F - Valencia Culvert Specifications - 4 MB
- Soquel Creek Watershed Assessment and Enhancement Project Plan with Appendixes A and B - 1 MB
- Appendix C1 – Fisheries Assessment - 3 MB
- Appendix C2 – Soquel Creek Salmonid Assessment And Ancement Plan - 3 MB
- Appendix E – Riparian Vegetation Assessment - 4 MB
- Appendix F – Response to Comment Letters - 264 kB
Note: Appendixes D and G of the Soquel Creek Watershed Enhancement Plan (Geomorphology / Hydrology Assessment and Erosion Prevention Plan, respectively) are currently down. We are in the process of restoring these two appendices.