Sand Canyon Wash is an approximately (to its longest source) tributary of
San Diego Creek
San Diego Creek is a urban waterway flowing into Upper Newport Bay in Orange County, California in the United States. Its watershed covers in parts of eight cities, including Irvine, Tustin, and Costa Mesa. From its headwaters in Laguna Woods ...
in
Orange County
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*Orange County, California, part of the Los Angeles metropolitan area
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, southern
California
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.
Course
Its headwaters rise in the northern
San Joaquin Hills as two streams, Shady Canyon Creek and Bommer Canyon Creek, then flows northwest into Sand Canyon Reservoir, formed by a dam across Strawberry Valley east of the community of
Turtle Rock near Irvine. The dry creek bed continues northwest from the reservoir, turning west where it enters the city of
Irvine Irvine may refer to:
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*Irvine Glacier
*Mount Irvine (Antarctica)
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*Irvine Island
*Mount Irvine, New South Wales
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, flowing along the northeastern boundary of
William R. Mason Regional Park.
The creek then turns west to empty into
San Diego Creek
San Diego Creek is a urban waterway flowing into Upper Newport Bay in Orange County, California in the United States. Its watershed covers in parts of eight cities, including Irvine, Tustin, and Costa Mesa. From its headwaters in Laguna Woods ...
in its
San Joaquin Marsh section, about above where the larger creek enters
Upper Newport Bay
The Upper Newport Bay (known locally as "The Back Bay") is a large coastal wetland (an estuary) in Newport Beach, Southern California and a major stopover for birds on the Pacific Flyway. Dozens of species, including endangered ones, can be ob ...
.
See also
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San Diego Creek bicycle path
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References
Rivers of Orange County, California
San Joaquin Hills
Irvine, California
Rivers of Southern California
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