Wolf Creek Channel

City of Temecula

Hall & Foreman provided design services for Wolf Creek Channel and the nearby Wolf Creek master planned community. Wolf Creek Channel is a feature of the Wolf Creek Specific Plan in the City of Temecula. This 2-mile long open regional flood control facility is a part of the Wolf Creek Master Planned Community featuring approximately 2,000 residential units, two schools, active and passive parks, and commercial retail uses. The primary purpose of the channel is to convey Wolf Valley storm runoff.  However, it also provides a variable width landscaped area (90 feet to 140 feet) that integrates water quality features and includes a 14-foot wide maintenance road, which is used as a community jogging/walking trail.

Wolf Creek Channel is unusual in that is a grass-lined. This grass lined channel is the first in Riverside County to employ the use of Turf Reinforcement Mat (TRM) erosion control measures. The water quality benefits of the grass channel lining are further enhanced by the use of stormceptor devices, located just upstream of storm drain outlets into the channel.