Battle Creek (California)

Battle Creek
River
Battle Creek
Country	United States
State	California

Tributaries
- left	South Fork Battle Creek, Spring Branch Battle Creek
- right	North Fork Battle Creek


Source	Confluence of North Fork and South Fork
- location	Near Shingletown
- elevation	868 ft (265 m)
- coordinates	40°25′23″N 121°59′49″W / 40.42306°N 121.99694°W / 40.42306; -121.99694
Mouth	Sacramento River
- location	Southeast of Anderson
- elevation	338 ft (103 m)
- coordinates	40°21′19″N 122°10′33″W / 40.35528°N 122.17583°W / 40.35528; -122.17583Coordinates: 40°21′19″N 122°10′33″W / 40.35528°N 122.17583°W / 40.35528; -122.17583

Length	47 mi (76 km) ^[1]
Volume	1 cu ft (0 m³)
Basin	365 sq mi (945 km²)
Discharge	for USGS gage #11376550, 5.7 miles (9.2 km) from the mouth
- average	501 cu ft/s (14 m³/s)
- max	24,700 cu ft/s (699 m³/s)
- min	102 cu ft/s (3 m³/s)

Battle Creek is a 16.6-mile-long (26.7 km)^[2] creek located in Shasta and Tehama Counties, California. It is a major tributary to the Sacramento River.

The creek is part of a $67 million Chinook salmon restoration project, a PG&E Battle Creek Hydroelectric Project. Many adjacent properties hold conservation easements protecting them from development.

In addition to the Chinook salmon, the creek has steelhead, rainbow, and brown trout. Counterintuitively, first-year data from a post-wildfire soil erosion study show that control sites disturbed only by fire produced substantially more water runoff and soil erosion than did sites that received post-wildfire salvage logging. These results have important implications for the use, treatment, and restoration of post-wildfire landscapes, suggesting that salvage logging can reduce soil erosion.^[3]

References

↑ Including the South Fork
↑ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed March 10, 2011
↑ James, Cajun "Post Wildfire Salvage Logging, Soil Erosion, and Sediment Delivery, Ponderosa Fire, Battle Creek Watershed, Northern California"

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Rivers of California's Central Valley watershed (north-to-south)

Sacramento River Valley	Pit River McCloud River Cow Creek Cottonwood Creek Mill Creek Deer Creek Battle Creek Stony Creek Butte Creek Feather River Yuba River Bear River American River Cache Creek Putah Creek

San Joaquin River Valley	Mokelumne River Cosumnes River Calaveras River Stanislaus River Tuolumne River Merced River Mariposa Creek Chowchilla River Fresno River

Tulare Basin	Kings River Kaweah River Tule River White River Poso Creek Kern River

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