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San Diego’s Alvarado Creek and the future of Adobe Falls

Posted by: Maven on July 27, 2009 at 6:56 am

From Groksurf’s San Diego (a blog):

There’s only one place remaining where you can tell that Alvarado Creek is a creek anymore. That place is Adobe Falls, a steep, pretty (but graffiti-ridden), rocky cascade in Del Cerro. It has the status of being the only waterfall within San Diego city limits. A small portion of the falls is owned by the city as open space with historical significance, and a larger portion of the surrounding land belongs to San Diego State University (SDSU) just across the freeway to the south. Even during the hot, dry month of July, the creek is flowing despite the long absence of precipitation because of urban irrigation and Lake Murray reservoir runoff. Adobe Falls’ undeveloped status is eventually going to change, however, as I’ll discuss shortly.

But first, an exploration of the Alvarado Creek watershed.

By my reckoning, Alvarado Creek draws its water from much of Del Cerro, San Carlos, Fletcher Hills, Grossmont and some of the hilly areas south of the I-8 corridor from Grossmont west until Fairmount Ave. Roughly speaking, the northern boundary of the watershed would be Waring Road and then Navajo Road; on the east and south it would be the Fletcher Parkway area, and along I-8 some runoff from the south may also come from near El Cajon Blvd and Montezuma Road.

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July 27, 2009 · Filed Under San Diego

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