San Juan Creek Watershed Analysis

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In this essay we are going to go through two watersheds; San Mateo Watershed and San Juan Creek Watershed. Here we discuss what are the effects of urbanization and what exactly are they (cities) doing to the watersheds. Watersheds are areas of land 1. We are going to start of with talking about San Juan Creek. This watershed is located in Orange County, California and it runs 160 square miles east. San Juan Creek was historically a free flowing creek before the swift urbanization of Orange County started. The habitat started slowing decreasing in the late 80’s due to invasive plants and animals. The surrounding areas started to urbanize such as Dana Point. The construction of the Dana Point Harbor caused a large surf break thus sending several