Walking Waterhoods: Temescal Creek Park to Horton

Temescal Creek Park to Horton

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Walking Waterhoods: Temescal Creek Park to Horton

Emeryville, California 94608, United States

Created By: Wholly H2O

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This tour begins near the corner of 47th Street and Adeline Street

Temescal Creek is diverted into a culvert that runs directly under this park's path. Restored in 2013, Temescal Creek Park contains several San Francisco Bay-friendly and green infrastructure features. These features include native shrubs, bioswales that help absorb and filter pollution from stormwater runoff, and a rock swale containing re-used boulders and cobbles. As you walk through the park, you'll see native coast redwoods (Sequoia sempervirens) bordering the path. This is a well-loved and well-used park. Even small areas like this park are able to provide a toehold for flora and fauna, and are often biological corridors allowing species to move across territory by providing food and habitat.


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What You'll See on the Tour

At the entryway of B3 Lofts is a monument to Temescal Creek and the building's earlier history as Remar Bakery. The building was built in 1919 and operated as a bakery until 1988. The monument was created in 2013 during the final developmen... Read more
This seemingly random patch of green is actually an important piece of modern water infrastructure. As storm water flows through the streets toward the San Francisco Bay collecting trash and chemicals, the water gets filtered through this ... Read more
Purple sage, (Salvia leucophylla) is an endemic low-growing plant native to Southern California and Baja California, Mexico. Highly aromatic, this plant draws in a wide variety of pollinators. Stand here for a view minutes to see what insec... Read more
Were there really coho and sockeye salmon in Temescal Creek? Yes, salmon ran up the year-round larger creeks of Temescal, Sausal, Strawberry, and Codornices Creek. With each of these creeks completely or partially culverted (put in pipes), ... Read more
The California bumblebee (Bombus californicus) is a classic bumblebee with big fuzzy bodies that feature yellow and black patterns. These bumblebees make their nests in the ground and emerge from April to September. These California natives... Read more
You'll find blue-eyed darners (Aeshna multicolor) near many bodies of water, including Temescal Creek. They boast bright blue eyes and abdomens (what many people would call their tails). These dragonflies are some of the first to appear in ... Read more
Formosan firethorn (Pyracantha koidzumii) thrives in most climates but prefers drier climates in soil with good drainage. Originating in Taiwan, this plant moved across the globe and is now considered an invasive species within the United ... Read more
Eucalyptus, also known as Eucalyptus globulus subsp. bicostat, are trees native to southeastern Australia and are considered invasive in California. These tall trees are identifiable by their peeling bark along the trunk, fragrant, minty-sm... Read more
No matter what time of year you are walking through the park, you can hear the flow of the year-round Temescal Creek. Large grates were installed by Alameda County Flood Control for access to the buried creek. Stand here for a moment and li... Read more
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Chayote, pronounced Chai-ow-tei, is a vine native to Mexico. Originally cultivated by the Aztecs, Chayote, or Sechium edule, was spread through conquest. Within the U.S., you can typically find this plant hanging along residencial fences or... Read more
Located at 1042 48th Street, just below Temescal Creek Park, this community garden sits above a culverted portion of the creek. This garden is an example of community use of a parcel that has an easement on it. This easement allows access t... Read more
Emeryville was once known as "the rottenest city on the Pacific Coast." Incorporated in 1896, the city was formed to prevent the anti-gambling and anti-prostitution fever in Oakland, which was rapidly absorbing areas of Alameda County. Afte... Read more
For over a thousand years, the San Francisco Bay Area was home to many triblets of natives we know as the Ohlone. However, the Spanish expanded into this part of California in the late 1700s and brought missions to convert the Indigenous pe... Read more
The Flood of 1962, aka, the Columbus Day Flood, had a huge impact on the creeks throughout the San Francisco East Bay, managed by Alameda County Flood Control District. What is most important to know is that the bulk of the land in the East... Read more
There have been several efforts to bring the creek back to the surface of our minds through memorializing art. Before the high school was rebuilt here in the early 21st century, there were creek markers in the sidewalk like this one.
In 2005, the City of Emeryville became a leader in municipal stormwater management, designing storm water capture and cleaning infrastructure like you saw in the bulb out earlier in the tour. When Emeryville High School was modernized, the ... Read more
If you were taking a walk down Temescal Creek in the late 1800s, you'd be standing in a beautiful willow thicket as the creek made its way to the Bay. Some of that thicket endured, but most of the creek was culverted (buried) in 1871 to bui... Read more
Hollis Green Park is situated along Temescal Creek's underground path and features a stage area and space for large gatherings. This pleasant park is built on land owned and maintained by Novartis, a medical corporation, making it an excell... Read more

 

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