Searsville Dam is a masonry dam in San Mateo County, California, that was completed in 1892, one year after the founding of Stanford University, and impounds Corte Madera Creek to form a reservoir kno
Searsville Reservoir and dam around 2009 with heavy reservoir siltation visible
The front of the dam in 2013
A frame on the dam which at one time supported a diving platform
Aerial view of Searsville Reservoir with the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center and I-280, with San Francisco Bay in the distance
San Francisquito Creek is a creek whose mainstem flows 12.9-mile-long eastwards to southwest San Francisco Bay in California, United States. Historically it was called the Arroyo de San Francisco by J
Searsville Dam
…San Mateo County, California, that was completed in 1892, one year after the founding of Stanford University, and impounds Corte Madera Creek (in the San Francisquito Creek watershed) to form a reservoir known as Searsville Reservoir or Searsville Lake. Searsville Dam is located in the Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve and…
El Palo Alto and the San Francisquito Creek c. 1910
Stanford removed the Lagunita Diversion Dam and Fish Ladder on San Francisquito Creek, near Happy Hollow Lane in Menlo Park, in late 2018, improving access for salmonid spawning runs up Los Trancos Creek and also up Corte Madera Creek to Searsville Dam
Pair of gray foxes (Urocyon cinereoargenteus), the only tree-climbing canid in the Americas, den and forage for rodents, grasshoppers and berries near the mouth of Matadero Creek in the Palo Alto Baylands