S Abel Street

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.

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 S Abel Street 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

1 stream gauge whose Valley Water threshold descriptions name S Abel Street. — The point marks the gauge location whose published threshold text names S Abel Street; 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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