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Guadalupe watershed

Canoas Creek at Dow

Reading 1.47 ft and 0.67 cfs. Valley Water publishes no flood threshold for this location.

Canoas Creek at Dow plotted at latitude 37.2803 and longitude -121.8690 over Valley Water's published major-watershed layer.
Canoas Creek at Dow at 37.2803, -121.8690, exactly as positioned in Valley Water's sensor feed. Valley Water publishes Guadalupe River as a major watershed here. The eleven published boundaries do not line up exactly with the five watershed groupings used here, and not every named creek has one.
  • Stream gauge

1.47 ft

Captured July 28, 2026 at 4:40 PM PT

  • Sensor ID 5022
  • 37.2803, -121.8690
  • Included in Valley Water's flood watch, carries a forecast model
  • Reporting

Flood Thresholds

Valley Water publishes no flood thresholds for this sensor. It is monitored for water supply and stream conditions rather than for flood warning.

Upstream and Downstream

Where this gauge sits on Canoas Creek.

  1. Canoas Creek at Dow

    1.47 ft · 0.67 cfs · no published threshold
  2. Canoas Creek at Almaden Expwy (Stage Only)

    1.28 ft · 0 cfs · 8.22 ft below threshold 1

Sensor Notes

Sensor primarily for flood purposes. Installed in 2018 to replace poor flow measurements for station 5073 due to backwater.

Valley Water, sensor notes for Canoas Creek at Dow