Capitol Avenue

Named in 2 flood threshold descriptions published by Valley Water.

The Gauge Relationship

Every quotation below is Valley Water's own text, unedited. The captured reading and exact distance to the first threshold that names this place come before the map, so the resident answer is not hidden behind geography.

Upper Penitencia Creek at Piedmont Rd

Coyote watershed · captured reading 4.24 ft · first named at threshold 3, 9 ft

At the captured reading, this creek is 4.76 feet below the level where Capitol Avenue is named.

Flooding may occur along Penitencia Creek Road with overbanking occurring at multiple locations, mostly spilling southward upstream of Capitol Avenue.
Valley Water, threshold 3 description for Upper Penitencia Creek at Piedmont Rd

Water may move further north toward Milpitas, crossing Montague Expwy and following Capitol Avenue toward I-880.
Valley Water, threshold 4 description for Upper Penitencia Creek at Piedmont Rd

Gauge Location

1 stream gauge whose Valley Water threshold descriptions name Capitol Avenue. — The point marks the gauge location whose published threshold text names Capitol Avenue; it does not claim a coordinate for the street or landmark. All eleven polygons in Valley Water's published major-watershed layer are shown. The eleven published polygons do not exactly match the portal's five sensor groups and do not provide a boundary for every named creek.

A place named here is not a flood prediction. It is what Valley Water records as at risk when a creek reaches that level. For an emergency, call 911.

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