Dry Creek
A stream that is 15 miles long, Dry Creek was known as Linda Creek in the past. It can be found in the Sacramento County and in Placer County, both from California. This creek is a Sacramento River tributary and the watershed can be found in the Sacramento Valley. Since you can find suburban developments for the most part of the stream’s length, people use it often for recreation, though it also means that sometimes it causes flooding.
A couple of small streams come in Roseville and they combine to form Dry Creek, from the Miners Ravine and Antelope Creek confluence. Initially, Dry Creek will flow towards the Royer Park, in the Roseville downtown, but after that it meets with Cirby Creek, continuing towards west. It continues near the plant for wastewater treatment and finally towards the city of Sacramento, to SW.
Sacramento County
Once it goes past the county of Sacramento, Dry Creek will go towards SW, from Gibson County Park to the Antelope city. Eventually it will go in the Rio Linda community and from NW of Robla it will go into the Sacramento city, it will flow to the W-SW and it will form a small delta in the process, merging with the Steelhead Creek. Steelhead will then go in the Discovery Park and finally go in the Sacramento River.
Roseville Environmental Conditions
Throughout its history, the Dry Creek and the tributaries that accompany it have always had anadromous fish in them. Unfortunately, for a period of two decades, from 1945 to the year 1965, a number of insecticides were used a lot in the watershed, in an attempt of controlling the insect population. These chemicals remained in the watershed of Dry Creek for a long time and some of them still exist today. The four insecticides which were used are called dieldrin, aldrin, DDT and heptachlor.