New Chase Condominiums

New Chase Condominiums holds 175 addresses on 4.54 acres, with 174 of them separately assessed, on six streets named for water and landform. Sylvan River carries 96 of the addresses and Brighton River 32, alongside Aberdene Mountain, Atherton Mountain, Watershed and Creek. The assessor records two bedrooms on 107 of the homes, one on 56 and three on 11, with a median building area of 916 square feet.

The city's landscape survey maps one swimming pool inside the boundary, and the general plan designates the site High Density Residential, which allows 15 to 30 homes to the acre. FEMA places 97.9 percent of the ground in Zone X as an area with reduced flood risk due to levee and 2.1 percent in Zone A. Garden Grove Unified files this land in study area 105A of its own school locator, which feeds Mamie L. Northcutt Elementary, Stephen R. Fitz Intermediate and Los Amigos High.

The street names here pair a British place with a piece of landscape. Aberdene Mountain and Atherton Mountain, Brighton River and Sylvan River, then plain Creek and Watershed. Sylvan comes from the Latin silva, meaning of the woods. There are 175 homes on four and a half acres, mostly two bedrooms, and the building ran from 1983 with later work as recent as 2009.

Watershed is a slightly wry name for this ground. Fountain Valley sits on the low flat where the Santa Ana River spreads out before the sea, and it was known for peat, willows and water that came up under its own pressure when a pipe was driven a short way in. Settlers called the marsh below Santa Ana Gospel Swamp and the thickets to the west the Willows, where cattle got lost and fugitives hid.