South Abel Street

Named in 1 flood threshold description 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.

Lower Penitencia Creek at Machado Ave

Coyote watershed · captured reading 1.08 ft · first named at threshold 2, 7.5 ft

At the captured reading, this creek is 6.42 feet below the level where South Abel Street is named.

Overtopping just south of Great Mall Parkway on the east bank, flooding South Abel Street.
Valley Water, threshold 2 description for Lower Penitencia Creek at Machado Ave

Gauge Location

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