I-880

Named in 2 flood threshold descriptions published by Valley Water.

What Valley Water Says Floods Here

Every quotation below is Valley Water's own text, unedited, with the captured reading and the exact distance to the first threshold that names this place.

Upper Penitencia Creek at Piedmont Rd

Coyote watershed · captured reading 4.24 ft · first named at threshold 4, 10.5 ft

At the captured reading, this creek is 6.26 feet below the level where I-880 is named.

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

Lower Penitencia Creek at Machado Ave

Coyote watershed · captured reading 1.08 ft · first named at threshold 3, 8 ft

At the captured reading, this creek is 6.92 feet below the level where I-880 is named.

Spills occur around S Abel Street, flowing westward along West Capitol Avenue toward I-880 and ponding in the neighborhoods.
Valley Water, threshold 3 description for Lower Penitencia Creek at Machado Ave

Gauge Location

2 stream gauges whose Valley Water threshold descriptions name I-880. — The point marks the gauge locations whose published threshold text names I-880; 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 boundaries do not line up exactly with the five watershed groupings used here, and not every named creek has one.

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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