Dominguez Channel


Dominguez Channel is a perennial river in southern Los Angeles County, California, and located in the center of the Dominguez Watershed of.
The watershed area is 96% developed and largely residential. It consists of a series of subsurface storm drain tributaries and daylighted flood control channels that have a dual function as habitat for wildlife and wildflowers.. Lower Dominguez Channel, for the last few miles before reaching the ocean harbor, becomes a river estuary mixing freshwater and ocean water together, overlying a wetland soil between uncemented boulder levees that serves as wildlife habitat and wildflower habitat including wetland vegetation.

Course

The stream begins just south of 116th Street in Hawthorne and flows through El Camino Village, Gardena, Alondra Park, El Camino College, Torrance, Harbor Gateway, Carson, Wilmington, and empties into the East Basin of the Port of Los Angeles, in San Pedro Bay on the Pacific Ocean.

Crossings

Crossings from mouth upstream to the source are: