Fountaingrove Lake
Fountaingrove Lake | ||
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Primary inflows Piner Creek | | |
Primary outflows | Piner Creek | |
Catchment area | 0.52 sq mi (1.3 km2)[2] | |
Basin countries | United States | |
Surface area | 33 acres (130,000 m2)[2] | |
Water volume | 427 acre⋅ft (527,000 m3)[2] | |
Surface elevation | 495 ft (151 m)[1] | |
Islands | 1 | |
Settlements | Santa Rosa | |
References | [1][2] |
Fountaingrove Lake is a reservoir in the city of Santa Rosa, California, United States.[3][4] Formed by the Fountaingrove Dam,[2] the lake is fed from the east by Piner Creek, which is also the lake's sole outlet.
Fountaingrove Dam is an earthen dam built in 1953. It is 38 ft (12 m) high, 500 ft (150 m) long, and 15 ft (5 m) wide.[2]
In 1985, a private country club known as The Fountaingrove Club built a championship 18-hole golf course centered on Fountaingrove Lake. The golf course was designed by Ted Robinson Sr.[5]
The dam and half the lake is owned by the city of Santa Rosa as the Nagasawa Community Park.
Ecology
Fountaingrove has significant
Within the lake at its verges are significant densities of wetland plants; moreover, at upland locations there are many native trees, particularly
Environmental factors
The
Current issues
Due to the Tubbs Fire, many of the surrounding neighborhoods were destroyed, along with some of the coastline of the lake.[10]
A 500,000 US gal (1,900 kl) water storage tank was proposed near the southern end of Fountaingrove Lake; the city of Santa Rosa has approved this project to add to the municipal drinking water supply, subject to erosion control measures to protect Fountaingrove Lake from excessive siltation.[11] A substantial retirement community known as Varenna is under development as of 2007 on the ridgetop at the southeastern perimeter of Fountaingrove Lake. The Varenna project had not made wetlands mitigation environmental filings in a timely manner with the California Regional Water Quality Control Board regarding certain filling of perimeter wetlands of Fountaingrove Lake associated with its development project; therefore, additionally off-site mitigation was required of the project to compensate the people of California for the wetlands destruction at Fountaingrove Lake. On site mitigation measures include extensive erosion protection for cut slopes and installation of bioswales.
See also
References
- ^ a b c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Fountaingrove Lake
- ^ a b c d e f "Dams Within the Jurisdiction of the State of California" (PDF). Retrieved 2008-01-03.
- ^ Fountaingrove Lake, Sonoma County, California Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine
- USGSQuadrangle Map, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington DC (1958)
- ^ The Fountaingrove Club Course History
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- ^ "Species of Special Concern". Sacramento Fish and Wildlife Office, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Retrieved 2007-03-09.
- ^ Sonoma county Bass Fishing Club
- ^ "Historic meteorological data for Santa Rosa, California". Archived from the original on 2007-10-14. Retrieved 2007-03-06.
- ^ Panzar, Sonali Kohli, Paige St John, Javier (9 October 2017). "Santa Rosa under siege as huge fire carves path of destruction". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2018-02-25.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ Minutes of Santa Rosa City Council Meeting October 10, 2000 Archived September 26, 2007, at the Wayback Machine