Arcade Creek

The creek begins in Orangevale, California and flows into the Sacramento River through the Natomas East Main Drainage Canal.

[2] The artifacts included flakes and cores of hand stones, cobble-choppers, hammerstones, arrow heads, mortar and pestles.

This led researchers to believe that the abundance of Bucheye Trees in the area is due to the building of sweat houses and other living structures.

Governor Manuel Micheltorena[3] of Alta California from 1842 to 1845, gave 44,000 acres to Elijah Grimes, who named it Rancho Del Paso.

"[4] Arcade Creek is a small, urbanized watershed that is influenced by water quality problems, moderate flooding due to runoff, street drainage and overflow, all of which has had a significant negative impact on habitat conditions.

California in general has a Mediterranean climate which means that Arcade Creek has winters that are cool and wet, and hot dry summers.

Because of this during heavy storms and large amounts of precipitation, the golf course northeast and the residential area southeast are prone to flooding.

CEQA-mandated a need to implement flood control in which the City of Citrus Heights approved a development plan that would provide three basins with a total of 20 acres that would receive and collect any storm water that spills over the creeks banks.

Arcade Creek also experiences high volume of litter and trash due to being surrounded by residential and commercial buildings.

For the past 10 years, the USGS and Sacramento River Watershed Program have been monitoring Arcade Creeks water quality.

In addition, Arcade Creek was found to have the highest number diazinon, chloropyrifos, prometon, and prowl which are strong pesticides.

Because Arcade Creek flows into the Sacramento River, which leads to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and is used as drinking water for over 20 million people toxicity is a major concern.

[6] Two major roofed infrastructures that infiltrate Arcade Creek are the Sunrise-Bird cage mall and American River College.

Some species that once inhabited the Arcade Creek area include grizzly bears, Tule elk, black-tailed deer, pronghorn antelope, coyotes, ringtails, cottontails and badgers.

One major one includes the Arcade Creek Watershed Plan which is focused on enhancing: flood control, water quality, recreation, wildlife and aquatic habitat, land use, public safety, scenic resources, public stewardship and education, fire management and stakeholder collaboration to help improve the watershed overall quality and value.