Rush Creek (Mono County, California)

Rush Creek Lake Creek[1]
Deep channel incision on Rush Creek due to lowering of Mono Lake. Photo by Greg Reis, courtesy of the Mono Lake Committee
Location
Country	United States
State	California
Region	Mono County
Physical characteristics
Source	Mount Lyell
• location	Madera County, Sierra Nevada, California
• coordinates	37°44′22″N 119°16′18″W / 37.73944°N 119.27167°W / 37.73944; -119.27167[2]
• elevation	12,300 ft (3,700 m)
Mouth	Mono Lake
• coordinates	37°57′17″N 119°03′09″W / 37.95472°N 119.05250°W / 37.95472; -119.05250[2]
• elevation	6,378 ft (1,944 m)
Length	27 mi (43 km)
Basin size	131 sq mi (340 km2)
Discharge
• location	above Grant Lake
• average	90 cu ft/s (2.5 m3/s)
• minimum	16.6 cu ft/s (0.47 m3/s)
• maximum	1,070 cu ft/s (30 m3/s)
Basin features
Tributaries
• left	Alger Creek, Parker Creek, Walker Creek
• right	Reversed Creek

Rush Creek is a 27.2-mile-long (43.8 km)^[3] creek in California on the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada, running east and then northeast to Mono Lake. Rush Creek is the largest stream in the Mono Basin, carrying 41% of the total runoff. It was extensively diverted by the Los Angeles Aqueduct system in the twentieth century until California Trout, Inc., the National Audubon Society, and the Mono Lake Committee sued Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) for continuous low flows in Rush Creek to maintain trout populations in good condition, which was ordered by the court in 1985.