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It is often referred to as the headwaters of California because its lakes and aquifers help provide clean drinking water to the rest of the state.

It as often referred to as the headwaters of California because its lakes and aquifers help provide clean drinking water to the rest of the state.

The water that flows into the North Fork Reservoir, which serves Asheville and the towns of Black Mountain and Swannanoa, always ran clear and clean from its headwaters high in Pisgah National Forest.

“But not only for us. It really serves as a headwaters of California.”

Lindley and other scientists said in a 2007 report that wildfires in the headwaters of Mill and Deer creeks, as well as Butte Creek, pose a significant threat to spring-run Chinook.