Site AT3: Atascadero Creek
at Puente Drive

From Hollister Avenue, turn towards the ocean on Puente (just past San Marcos High School if you are heading away from Goleta). Drive across the bridge over the creek and park just past the bike path on the right hand side. We sample downstream of the bridge. The creek here is a concrete channel with steep sides so be careful going down (real fast baby steps usually does the trick). Besides being the largest creek in the Santa Barbara area, Atascadero has the longest continuous stream of water during the dry months and we sample this stream at four locations. Heading upstream, AT3 is our third location (MY1 is usually dry in the summer). At AT3 we are above the golf course and agricultural uses and are seeing a, more or less, pure suburban Santa Barbara pollution signal in the water.


Go downstream to Site AT2
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