Middle Creek is a major tributary of

Cerrito Creek Cerrito Creek is one of the principal watercourses running out of the Berkeley Hills into San Francisco Bay in northern California. It is significant for its use as a boundary demarcation historically, as well as presently. In the early 19th c ...

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.Creeks maps
''FiveCreeks.org''. '' Friends of the Five Creeks website''. 2011. Retrieved 27-01-2011. The creek runs begins at the confluence of Blackberry Creek and Capistrano Creek, on the western edge of Berkeley's

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neighborhood. It flows west, both above ground and through

culvert A culvert is a structure that channels water past an obstacle or to a subterranean waterway. Typically embedded so as to be surrounded by soil, a culvert may be made from a pipe (fluid conveyance), pipe, reinforced concrete or other materia ...

s before discharging into Cerrito Creek in Creekside Park, on the north side of Albany Hill near

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. It is looked after by the Friends of the Five Creeks, a community organization.

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Albany, California Rivers of Alameda County, California Rivers of Northern California Tributaries of Cerrito Creek {{California-river-stub