Site LC2: Los Carneros Creek
at Calle Real

From Hollister Avenue, turn towards the mountains on Los Carneros Road. Continue over the 101 freeway, and when you come to Calle Real make a left into a large dirt pullout and park. From the parking lot, walk down the stream bank to the creek. During the dry season flow here is often low, but there is usually enough to sample. We sample at two sites along this creek; this is the uppermost (upstream) site. Since the Los Carneros watershed is relatively undeveloped, sampling at LC2, above the 101 intersection, gives us some idea of what runoff into the slough must have been like prior to development in Santa Barbara and Goleta. It will, hopefully, serve as a yardstick to gauge how much the other tributaries have been impacted.

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