Canoas Creek in the Rain, 1/8/17 by Ronald Horii
Canoas Creek flows behind my house. It is a tributary of the Guadalupe River. For its entire length, it is an engineered flood control channel. It has never flooded near my house, which is close to Cottle Road. However, in the early 80's, it overflowed its banks farther downstream, flooding the streets. After the first really heavy rainstorm of the season I wanted to see how the creek was doing handling the rain. I followed it from its source to its end on the Guadalupe River. It was nearly full, but we only got about 1.3" of rain.

I also followed the Guadalupe River upstream. Here are pictures:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1300594226630763.1073742147.100000405933924&type=1&l=92487ab1d4

These maps show the source and end of Canoas Creek:
http://explore.museumca.org/creeks/WholeMaps/14_South%20San%20Jose%20Creek%20Map.pdf
http://explore.museumca.org/creeks/WholeMaps/8_Central%20San%20Jose%20Creek%20Map.pdf 
1 comment
Ellen Levy Finch
I took a shot behind my house--well, OK, down the street--midafternoon. Will upload that when I'm done with some of these backups so have a USB port available. I'm pretty sure I've seen it higher than it was at that time. Lots of vehicles stopping by (well--meaning usually there aren't any) to check it out.
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