It does not contain any reservoirs to provide surface storage and regulate flows.

[2] In 1912 Warden R. L. Sinkey wrote of Putah Creek, "Becomes dry anywhere below Winters during the summer months.

[7] William Robert Prather, who developed Adams Springs, corresponded with Thomas Edison in the late 1890s, who told him how to build a Pelton wheel in Big Canyon Creek to generate electricity for the resort.

[8] Big Canyon Road (107) runs along the lower part of the creek.

As of November 2017 it was in poor condition and its structure had been appraised as "basically intolerable requiring high priority of replacement".