Browns Canyon Wash
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Browns Canyon Wash is a 10.3 miles (16.6 km) tributary
of the Los Angeles River
in the western San Fernando Valley
of Los Angeles County, California
.
The stream begins as a free-flowing stream in the eastern Santa Susana Mountains
, running adjacent to Browns Canyon Road (Brown's Canyon Road lead to one of the nike bases of the cold war). Passing under the State Route 118 freeway, it is then encased in a concrete
flood control channel
, traveling south through Chatsworth, Winnetka, and Canoga Park, joining the Los Angeles River just west of Mason Avenue.+
The channel walls near Winnetka were damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
The wash features a short bicycle path
on its eastern bank in Chatsworth.
Tributary
A tributary or affluent is a stream or river that flows into a main stem river or a lake. A tributary does not flow directly into a sea or ocean...
of the Los Angeles River
Los Angeles River
The Los Angeles River is a river that starts in the San Fernando Valley, in the Simi Hills and Santa Susana Mountains, and flows through Los Angeles County, California, from Canoga Park in the western end of the San Fernando Valley, nearly southeast to its mouth in Long Beach...
in the western San Fernando Valley
San Fernando Valley
The San Fernando Valley is an urbanized valley located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area of southern California, United States, defined by the dramatic mountains of the Transverse Ranges circling it...
of Los Angeles County, California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
.
The stream begins as a free-flowing stream in the eastern Santa Susana Mountains
Santa Susana Mountains
The Santa Susana Mountains are a transverse range of mountains in southern California, north of the city of Los Angeles, in the United States. The range runs east-west separating the San Fernando Valley and Simi Valley on its south, from Santa Clara River Valley to the north, and Santa Clarita...
, running adjacent to Browns Canyon Road (Brown's Canyon Road lead to one of the nike bases of the cold war). Passing under the State Route 118 freeway, it is then encased in a concrete
Concrete
Concrete is a composite construction material, composed of cement and other cementitious materials such as fly ash and slag cement, aggregate , water and chemical admixtures.The word concrete comes from the Latin word...
flood control channel
Flood control channel
Flood control channels are a series of large and empty open-air channels that extend a ways below the street levels of some larger cities, so that if and when a flood occurs, the flood will run into the channels, and proceed to be drained to the proper body of water...
, traveling south through Chatsworth, Winnetka, and Canoga Park, joining the Los Angeles River just west of Mason Avenue.+
The channel walls near Winnetka were damaged in the 1994 Northridge earthquake.
The wash features a short bicycle path
Bicycle Path
Bicycle Path is a historic road in Central Suffolk County on Long Island, New York, built in the late 19th Century in order to capitalize on the bicycle craze of that period...
on its eastern bank in Chatsworth.
Crossings and tributaries
From mouth to source (year built in parentheses):- Sherman Way (1971)
- Valerio Street [Pedestrian Bridge]
- Saticoy Sreet (1971)
- near Arminta Street [Pedestrian Bridge]
- Roscoe Boulevard (1971)
- De Soto Avenue (1972)
- Santa Susana Creek enters
- Parthenia Street (1972)
- Nordhoff Street (1971)
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Ventura County Line - Lassen Street (1971)
- Devonshire Street/Canoga Avenue (1974)
- Chatsworth Street (1972)
- Variel Avenue (1973)
- Rinaldi Street (1973)
- State Route 118California State Route 118State Route 118 is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that begins running west to east through Ventura and Los Angeles counties in southern California. It travels from Saticoy in Ventura County east to Lake View Terrace in Los Angeles...
offramp to De Soto Avenue (1971) - State Route 118 - Ronald Reagan Freeway (1971)