Strawberry Creek is the major focus of open space on the University of California, Berkeley (Alameda County, California, USA) campus; it provides visual amenity and variety, riparian and wildlife habitat, and educational and recreational opportunities.
Since the beginning of this century, urbanization of the catchment, channel alteration and water quality degradation combined to cause deterioration of the creek’s habitat and overall environmental quality; this was manifested by a marked absence of flora and fauna, obvious water pollution and severe erosion.
By the 1980's Strawberry Creek was very neglected, with degraded habitat and harmful water quality. The City of Berkeley advised against direct contact with the creek because of sewage and chemical contamination.
Assessment of Codornices Creek to establish presence of presence of steelhead and rainbow trout as well as examine the salmonid stream habitat potential. Authored by Kiers Associates.