Big Pine Creek is a 12.1-mile-long (19.5 km) stream in Inyo County of eastern California , in the western United States . It flows from the eastern Sierra Nevada down to the Owens Valley , where it is a major tributary of the Owens River near Big Pine .
5-416: Big Pine Creek may refer to: Big Pine Creek (California) , Inyo County, California Big Pine Creek (Indiana) , west-central Indiana Big Pine Creek (Texas) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Big Pine Creek . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change
10-557: A 3.2 MW hydroelectric plant on the creek, which dewaters it. Also, some water is diverted for domestic use and irrigation on nearby Indian reservations . The actor Lon Chaney had a stone cabin built on the North Fork of Big Pine Creek, as a personal retreat. The cabin was designed in 1929 by renowned Southern California architect Paul Williams . It still stands, preserved in the Inyo National Forest, and listed on
15-595: Is 52,000 acre-feet (64,000,000 m ), mostly from Big Pine Creek itself. Despite its name, Big Pine Canal does not divert water from Big Pine Creek, it comes from the Owens River upstream. The canal provides water to the Big Pine area for irrigation , recreation and groundwater recharge . There are no storage dams or reservoirs, but the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power operates
20-577: The eastern slopes of the Sierra Nevada, near the border with Fresno County . The creek begins at the confluence of its North and South Forks, below the Palisades . From there, the creek flows east-northeast, passing Crater Mountain of the Big Pine volcanic field and intersecting Big Pine Canal before joining the Owens River near the town of Big Pine. The total average runoff from the watershed
25-424: The link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Big_Pine_Creek&oldid=932724322 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Big Pine Creek (California) The headwaters of Big Pine Creek are in
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