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  Santa Rosa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Santa Rosa is the name of many places:
Santa Rosa, California, the long-time home of Charles Schultz, the author of the famous Peanuts comic strip.
Santa Rosa, the fourth-generation Centrino platform, scheduled for release in April 2007.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Santa_Rosa   (128 words)

  
 Santa Cruz, Laguna - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Santa Cruz is a 1st class urban municipality in the province of Laguna, Philippines and the seat of the Laguna provincial government.
Santa Cruz town has no natural tourist spots and no wide areas to develop as man-made tourist attractions unlike other municipalities in Laguna.
Santa Cruz is politically subdivided into 26 barangays.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Santa_Cruz,_Laguna   (141 words)

  
 Laguna De Santa Rosa - Ecology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
The Laguna de Santa Rosa is Sonoma County’s richest area of wildlife habitat, and the most biologically diverse region of Sonoma County (itself the second-most biologically diverse county in California).
The largest tributary of the Russian River, the Laguna drains a 254-square-mile watershed which encompasses nearly the entire Santa Rosa Plain and includes all or part of the cities of Windsor, Santa Rosa, Rohnert Park, Cotati, Sebastopol and the unincorporated community of Forestville.
The Laguna is an important stopover for thousands of birds migrating along the Pacific Flyway and is home to a wide variety of life: more than 200 species of birds ranging from bald eagles to hummingbirds, rare and endangered salmon, steelhead, salamanders and plants, mountain lion, bobcat, coyote, mink, badger, and river otter.
www.lagunadesantarosa.org /ecology.html   (267 words)

  
 City of Sebastopol - Laguna Wetlands Preserve Program
Flood waters flow from the Russian River into the Laguna, whenever the flood stage in the river is higher than that in the Laguna, creating a temporary lake, The total flood storage capacity of the Laguna is 80,000 acre feet at the 76 foot elevation.
A drastic change to the vegetation of the Santa Rosa Plan was the conversion of the native grassland vegetation after cattle were introduced on the scene.
In 1945, a USFWS biologist surveyed the Laguna (McBride 1945, in Cardwell 1958), and reported that "at times, the Laguna area is one continuous body of water as much as 10 miles in length and ranging in width from a few hundred feet to as much as 1.5 miles locally".
www.ci.sebastopol.ca.us /lagunawetlandspreserve.shtml   (3896 words)

  
 New Life for the Laguna: Santa Rosa’s Wetlands not Going to Waste
The Laguna de Santa Rosa Wetlands Preserve in Sebastopol is one of a handful of publicly accessible sections of the Laguna, which is the North Coast’s largest freshwater wetland.
The name “Laguna” refers both to an actual waterway—a slow and sinuous 14-mile ribbon that is the largest and southernmost tributary of the Russian River, which it joins at Forestville—and, more broadly, to the 7,500-acre floodplain that spreads from Santa Rosa east to Sebastopol and from Cotati north to Forestville.
Santa Rosa Creek Trail is a raised gravel road under the shade of old oaks, with views of dairy pastures, vineyards, and the creek.
www.baynature.com /2005octdec/santa_rosa_wetlands.html   (2567 words)

  
 Metroactive News & Issues | Laguna de Santa Rosa
The question of how much nutrients--particularly phosphorous, but also nitrogen--are polluting the laguna is the center of a new debate between scientists for the city of Santa Rosa and environmental groups.
This month, the Environmental Protection Agency listed the Laguna de Santa Rosa for nitrogen and phosphorous impairments, meaning there are excessive amounts of both nutrients in the water.
The city of Santa Rosa is currently considering six disposal alternatives for nearly 5 million gallons a day of wastewater coming out of Santa Rosa and Rohnert Park.
www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/06.26.03/laguna-0326.html   (810 words)

  
 Rain Bird - Agricultural Irrigation: Site Report: Santa Rosa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Santa Rosa, CA As one of the world’s most precious resources, water is becoming increasingly regulated.
The challenge that confronted Santa Rosa was to convince farmers of the system’s viability.
The Rancho Laguna cornfield is essentially a slow-rate wastewater spray field that is used for a beneficial purpose.
www.rainbird.com /ag/site_reports/santarosa.htm   (663 words)

  
 Sonoma West Times & News | The Healdsburg Tribune | The Windsor Times
SANTA ROSA -- The much-abused Laguna de Santa Rosa has yielded another problem: the threat of a possible outbreak of the West Nile virus that is transmitted by mosquitoes.
The Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation called a meeting at Santa Rosa's Laguna subregional sewage treatment plant this week because of an infestation of primrose that is promoting the growth of the Laguna's mosquito population.
Santa Rosa has been trying to control Ludwigia near the Laguna sewage treatment plant since 1999, said Denise Cadman, a natural resource specialist for Santa Rosa, but those efforts have either failed or made the problem worse by chopping up the weed, which can grow back from bits and spread downstream.
www.sonomawest.com /articles/2003/01/20/sonomawest/news/nws-1.txt   (1380 words)

  
 National Parks of Costa Rica
Santa Rosa was founded in 1972 as the country's first national park.
Santa Rosa is a vitally important nesting site for ridleys and other turtle species.
The entrance to the Murciélago Sector of Santa Rosa National Park is 15 km west of Hwy.
www.centralamerica.com /cr/parks/mosantarosa.htm   (1350 words)

  
 Laguna Hotels and Resorts Philippines - List of Laguna Hotels and Resorts in Philippines
LAGUNA Located 30 kilometers from the City of Manila, is the first province south of the Metro Manila area.
It is bounded on the north by Laguna de Bay and the province of Rizal, on the northeast by the Sierra Madre Mountain range, on the east by Quezon Province, on the south by Batangas, and on the west by Cavite.
Laguna is easily accessible to the agricultural provinces of Batangas and Quezon.
www.southtravels.com /asia/philippines/laguna.html   (319 words)

  
 MetroActive News & Issues | Laguna de Santa Rosa
Then, 20 years ago, the laguna was recognized as a resource worth restoring when Sebastopol's general plan identified the 75-acre city-owned site as a potential park and efforts started to protect it from development.
The Laguna de Santa Rosa Foundation received a jump start from retired builder Emmett Blincoe, who donated $200,000 to make improvements to the park, including the just completed mile-long trail in memory of his late wife Loretta, and the planting of more than 1,500 trees and shrubs, and debris cleanup.
The water quality of the laguna has improved enough in the past 10 years that the bird population count and number of species are dramatically up, Evans says.
www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/04.22.99/wetlands-9916.html   (958 words)

  
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The City of Santa Rosa has submitted documentation that demonstrates that this increase in capacity is consistent with the system reliability requirements of the Interim Action Plan standard for the Santa Rosa Area, contained in the Water Quality Control Plan for the North Coast Region.
The facility is a major discharger as defined by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. The Laguna Subregional Facilities serve the communities of Cotati, Rohnert Park, Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, and the unincorporated South Park County Sanitation District and are operated by the City of Santa Rosa.
The City of Santa Rosa submitted, with the self monitoring reports and report of waste discharge for the Laguna Treatment Plant, laboratory results for effluent samples analyzed for the Priority Toxic Pollutants included in 40 CFR 131.36.
www.swrcb.ca.gov /agendas/2000/march/draftorder.doc   (9125 words)

  
 Santa Rosa
Santa Rosa is open 24 hours a day with attention to visitors available between 8:00 am and 4:30 pm
The trail begins 6 km west of the administration area in Santa Rosa, using the road to Naranjo Beach.
The Administrative Area in Santa Rosa is located 42 km north of Liberia and 27 km south of La Cruz.
www.acguanacaste.ac.cr /1997/ecodesarrollo/ecoturismo/santa_rosa_turing.html   (599 words)

  
 PWA - Project Detail - Laguna de Santa Rosa
The Laguna de Santa Rosa is the Russian River’s largest tributary and the second largest freshwater wetland in Northern California.
As a valuable environmental resource, the Laguna serves as a natural detention basin that lowers the River’s downstream flood levels by more than 10 feet.
In order to preserve this important resource, it was critical to identify the source of the sediment and the rate of sediment deposition in the Laguna.
www.pwa-ltd.com /projects/pr_sed_laguna_de_santa_rosa.html   (297 words)

  
 ABS-CBN Interactive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
The mayor of Santa Rosa, Laguna province was shot and killed by three unidentified assailants after officiating a wedding at the municipal hall Tuesday morning.
On July 7, 2003, an unidentified man shot at Arcillas at the induction of a homeowners association in the village of Tagapo in Santa Rosa.
Arcillas sustained a gunshot wound to the thigh.
www.abs-cbnnews.com /topofthehour.aspx?StoryId=4885   (256 words)

  
 EL CIELITO INN - STA. ROSA, LAGUNA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Home to the Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Isuzu, Panasonic, Ford, Hitachi and Coca-Cola plants, Santa Rosa is a fast growing industrial area and clearly the most dynamic industrial corridor in the country today.
We have been awarded by the Laguna Tourism Council as the cleanest hotel in Laguna for three consecutive years.
We are in Laguna to serve the needs of both businesses and residents.
www.bridgestravel.com /elcielitoINN/laguna.html   (358 words)

  
 Wildlife Conservation Board, Laguna de Santa Rosa Ludwigia Eradication Project   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Plans for Ludwigia eradication in the Laguna de Santa Rosa were developed through a joint effort by the Sonoma County Ludwigia Task Force, convened in January 2003 to address the public and environmental health threats posed by this invasive species.
Ludwigia infestations host mosquito vectors of the West Nile virus, posing a health threat to residents of the Santa Rosa plain and local wildlife populations.
The Ludwigia-infested portion of the Laguna Wildlife Area was historically a broad perennial freshwater marsh, dominated by emergent native tules, rushes, cat-tails and water plantain.
www.wcb.ca.gov /Pages/Ludwigia.htm   (350 words)

  
 TWO VIEWS ON THE VISTA / Sebastopol development splits ruling Greens over affordable housing, nature preserve
The laguna, a 28,000-acre expanse of oak savanna, riparian woodland, pastures and marsh between Cotati and the Russian River, fronts the city's entire eastern border, checking the sprawl of the central county's cities and acting as an emergency bypass during winter floods.
But Laguna Vista, a development planned for a 21-acre site south of downtown, has changed the terms of the debate.
Laguna Vista, he notes, is within the voter-approved urban growth boundaries.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/09/30/BA232408.DTL   (1211 words)

  
 Alliance Francaise de Santa Rosa
Programs and activities of the Alliance Française de Santa Rosa provide for varied social and educational gatherings.
The Newsletter 'Ici l'Alliance' of the Alliance Française de Santa Rosa is mailed to the members on a monthly basis.
Informal conversation groups meet at the Foyer of the Alliance, 613 Fourth Street, in downtown Santa Rosa.
www.afsantarosa.org /?activities   (377 words)

  
 News & Culture in The North Bay | Pest Controllers
The Laguna extends from Sebastopol to Santa Rosa, and from Rohnert Park and Cotati to Forestville and Windsor.
At the suggestion of Anna Sears, research director at the Laguna Foundation in Santa Rosa, Robinson is also considering Telar, which is listed as a developmental toxin and a reproductive toxin under California's Proposition 65.
To combat another invasive water weed, ludwigia, the Laguna Foundation began spraying Dow's Glypro herbicide in the Laguna de Santa Rosa in July.
www.metrosantacruz.com /bohemian/12.07.05/pests-0549.html   (1362 words)

  
 Laguna Province hotels accommodation, Pagsanjan, Paete, Pakil, Los Banos, Laguna Resorts
Laguna was one of the first eight provinces to rise in revolt.
During the Filipino-American War from 1899-1901, Laguna was a major battlefield between American and Filipino troops.
Laguna's revolutionaries conducted one of the most successful guerrilla campaigns in the country but the struggle was eventually abandoned after the capture of President Emilio Aguinaldo in 1901.
www.lakbaypilipinas.com /travel_laguna.html   (379 words)

  
 San Francisco District Projects
PROJECT LOCATION AND DESCRIPTION: The Laguna de Santa Rosa, a tributary of the Russian River, is located approximately 13 miles west of the city of Santa Rosa in Sonoma County, California.
Historically, this area has served as a naturally occurring 7,000-acre storm detention basin during flooding of the Russian River, and is a valuable coastal fresh water wetland.
The local community believes that siltation has reduced the ability of the Laguna de Santa Rosa to function as a major flood basin, and that thousands of acres of wetlands habitat have been lost or degraded.
www.spn.usace.army.mil /projects/lagunadesantarosa.html   (321 words)

  
 Philippine Tourist Destinations (Laguna)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
This is the place to visit if your time in the Philippines is limited.
Laguna's richly-forested hills and mountains provide material for the livelihood of the towns of Pakil and Paete which are woodcarvers' haven.
The Philippines' biggest family theme park, Enchanted Kingdom, is in Santa Rosa, Laguna.
www.filipino.com /sfdot/top/laguna.htm   (184 words)

  
 Find Nannies & Au Pairs in Binan, Laguna :: Free Nanny & AuPair Search   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
Calamba, Laguna, Philippines, Live-in/out, Sep - Nov '06
Santa Rosa, Laguna, Philippines, Live-in/out, Oct - Nov '06
Pila, Laguna, Philippines, Live-in/out, Aug - Oct '06
www.greataupair.com /aupair-nanny/Laguna/Binan.htm   (218 words)

  
 El Cielito Inn Sta. Rosa, Laguna, Philippines
All rooms are fully airconditioned with private baths, state-of the-art telephone system with NDD/IDD capabilities, and cable television to keep you updated on the latest news, weather and movies from all over the world.
El Cielito Inn, The first business hotel in Santa Rosa, Laguna is situated by the Sta.
Home to the Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Isuzu and Coca-Cola plants, Santa Rosa is clearly the most dynamic industrail corridor in the country today.
www.asiatravel.com /globalpinoy/laguna   (225 words)

  
 MTV | Gilberto Santa Rosa - CD's, Albums, Tracks
Gilberto Santa Rosa is one of the most successful vocalists in Puerto Rico.
Known as a master of "soneo," an improvisational vocal technique, Santa Rosa has recorded such Salsa hits as "Muneca" and "Cantante De Cartel." His song, "Perdoname," has become a popular Salsa anthem.
Santa Rosa has increasingly reached out to audiences outside of Latin America.
www.mtv.com /music/artist/santa_rosa_gilberto/albums.jhtml   (190 words)

  
 El Cielito Inn -- Santa Rosa, Laguna, Philippines - up to 60% off accommodation at the El Cielito Inn -- Santa Rosa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-01)
El Cielito Inn, the first business hotel and the cleanest hotel in Santa Rosa, Laguna is situated by the Santa Rosa -- Siling Road, just 1.5 Km from south super highway.
Within a 5 kilometer radius are some of the largest, most advanced factories of the best known International brands, home to The Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Isuza and Coca-Cola plants.
Santa Rosa is clearly the most dynamic industrial corridor in the country today.
www.accommodation.info /hotels/bookings/philippines_accommodation/laguna_hotels/el_cielito_inn_--_santa_rosa.php   (293 words)

  
 Proposed Santa Rosa Permit
The only significant proposed revision to the existing WDRs is an increase in the allowable dry weather flow to the treatment plant from 18.0 million gallons per day to 19.2 million gallons per day.
The flow increase would allow for increased flows to the treatment plant while the City of Santa Rosa continues to pursue its long-term Geysers wastewater project.
The City of Santa Rosa has expanded its storage and irrigation capacities by an amount that corresponds to the proposed flow increase.
www.swrcb.ca.gov /agendas/2000/march/0301-01.htm   (269 words)

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