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The Marin Municipal Water District provides clean water to about 190,000 residents and businesses in the central and southern parts of Marin County. The water district controls and protects over 21,000 acres of valuable watershed land. This watershed leads to seven different reservoirs that can be found on Mount Tamalpais and West Marin. [4 ...
This category contains articles about rivers, streams, creeks, arroyos, tributaries, confluences, etcetera in Marin County, California. Watercourses that cross or define county boundaries should also be categorized in Category:Rivers of California and, if appropriate, Category:Rivers of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Lake Lagunitas is one of seven reservoirs providing potable water to the Marin Municipal Water District. [3] It is the oldest and smallest lake in the Mount Tamalpais watershed, with surface area of 22 acres (8.9 ha). [citation needed] About a mile east of Lake Lagunitas is Phoenix Lake, with surface area of approximately 25 acres.
Lagunitas Creek is a 24-mile-long (39 km) [2] northward-flowing stream in Marin County, California.It is critically important to the largest spawning runs of endangered coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) in the Central California Coast Coho salmon Evolutionary Significant Unit (CCC ESU).
Marin County (/ m ə ˈ r ɪ n / ⓘ mə-RIN) is a county located in the northwestern part of the San Francisco Bay Area of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census , the population was 262,231. [ 4 ]
County Owner Completed Type Height of dam [a] Reservoir capacity (ft) (m) (acre ft) (1,000 m 3) Almaden Reservoir: Almaden Dam: Alamitos Creek: Santa Clara: Santa Clara Valley Water District: 1935: Earth: 108 33: 1,586: 1,956 Alpine Lake: Alpine Dam: Lagunitas Creek: Marin: Marin Municipal Water District: 1917: Gravity: 143 44: 8,892: 10,968 ...
At the top of the Chileno Valley, a 220-acre (89 ha) natural lake, Laguna Lake, which straddles the Sonoma County - Marin County border and is the source of Chileno Creek, which flows 6.25 miles (10.06 km) west along Bolinas Ridge to Walker Creek. [11]
Alpine Lake is a reservoir in Marin County, California. Formed by Alpine Dam, it provides water to the Marin Municipal Water District. [3] Below the dam lies Kent Lake. [4] Alpine Lake is to the west of Bon Tempe Lake. Fishing is allowed, and Largemouth Bass, Smallmouth Bass, and trout can be caught. Boats and wading are not allowed on the lake.