East Bayshore Road

Named in 1 flood threshold description 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.

Palo Alto Flood Basin

Lower Peninsula watershed · captured reading -1.20 ft · first named at threshold 3, 6.3 ft

At the captured reading, this creek is 7.50 feet below the level where East Bayshore Road is named.

High flow in tributaries may cause overtopping on East Bayshore Road and area south of Embarcadero Road.
Valley Water, threshold 3 description for Palo Alto Flood Basin

Gauge Location

1 stream gauge whose Valley Water threshold descriptions name East Bayshore Road. — The point marks the gauge location whose published threshold text names East Bayshore Road; 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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