Watershed

Coyote

Coyote Creek runs the length of the valley floor, from the Diablo Range above Gilroy through east San Jose to the Bay at Alviso. It is the creek that flooded in February 2017.

Replay February 2017

28 stream gauges · 14 rain gauges · 2 reservoirs · drains to San Francisco Bay

Coyote watershed sensors plotted at their published coordinates over Valley Water's major-watershed polygons. — 28 stream, 14 rain, and 2 reservoir sensors in the Coyote watershed, plotted at their published coordinates. Valley Water publishes Coyote as a major watershed here. The eleven published boundaries do not line up exactly with the five watershed groupings used here, and not every named creek has one.

Reservoirs Above This Watershed

Water released or spilled from these reservoirs arrives at the gauges below.

Reservoirs in the Coyote watershed
Reservoir	Storage	Elevation	Spills at
Anderson Reservoir	3,508 acre-feet	489.3 ft	625 ft
Coyote Reservoir	9,840 acre-feet	753.4 ft	777.2 ft

Stream Gauges, Upstream to Bay

Each creek is drawn top to bottom in the order the water runs. The bar beside each gauge is filled to its captured stage on that gauge's own local scale; the dashed rules across it are the flood thresholds Valley Water publishes for that location.

Coyote Creek

10 gauges, ordered south to north down the creek

Coyote Creek above Coyote Reservoir (USGS)
3.29 ft · 0 cfs · no published threshold
Coyote Creek below Coyote Reservoir (USGS)
4.60 ft · 6.1 cfs · no published threshold
Coyote Creek below Anderson Reservoir
3.73 ft · 3.87 cfs · no published threshold
Coyote Creek at Madrone (USGS)
2.03 ft · 12 cfs · 3.97 ft below threshold 1
Coyote Creek above Metcalf Road
5.91 ft · 0.6 cfs · no published threshold
Coyote Creek below Coyote Perc Pond
0.00 ft · 0 cfs · no published threshold
Coyote Creek at Hwy 85
2.77 ft · 0 cfs · no published threshold
Coyote Creek at Edenvale
1.11 ft · 0 cfs · 6.89 ft below threshold 1
Coyote Creek at William St
3.61 ft · 1.73 cfs · 21.39 ft below threshold 1
Coyote Creek at CA-237 (USGS)
4.99 ft · 9.53 cfs · 9.51 ft below threshold 1

Upper Penitencia Creek

3 gauges, ordered south to north down the creek

Upper Penitencia Creek below Educational Park Drive
3.43 ft · 0 cfs · no published threshold
Upper Penitencia Creek at Piedmont Rd
4.24 ft · 0 cfs · 1.76 ft below threshold 1
Upper Penitencia Creek at Dorel Dr
6.93 ft · 0.02 cfs · no published threshold

Berryessa Creek

2 gauges, ordered south to north down the creek

Berryessa Creek at Old Piedmont Road
9.90 ft · 0 cfs · 1.10 ft below threshold 1
Berryessa Creek above Calaveras Blvd
3.97 ft · 102 cfs · 9.03 ft below threshold 1

Other Gauges Here

Artesian Slough 5.11 ft
Coyote Ck below Coyote Ranch Rd -1.90 ft
Coyote Percolation Pond Level 1.71 ft
Fisher Ck at Monterey Rd 1.26 ft
Fisher Creek at Laguna Ave (Not Real-Time) 0.29 ft
Las Animas Creek above Anderson Reservoir 2.46 ft
Lower Penitencia Creek at Machado Ave 1.08 ft
Lower Silver Creek at San Antonio Rd 0.92 ft
Ogier Downstream Coyote Creek 8.92 ft
Packwood Creek at Jackson Ranch 0.53 ft
Thompson Creek at Quimby Rd 1.62 ft
Upper Penitencia Creek Diversion to Mabury Recharge Pond 0.00 ft
Upper Silver Creek at Yerba Buena Rd 1.01 ft

Rain Gauges Here

Rain gauges in the Coyote watershed
Gauge	Last hour	Last 24 hours	Season
Biel Ranch	0.00 in	0.00 in	18.03 in
Coe Park	0.00 in	0.00 in	29.76 in
Coit Ranch	0.00 in	0.00 in	21.10 in
Coyote Reservoir	0.00 in	0.00 in	19.29 in
Curtner Ranch	0.00 in	0.00 in	17.09 in
Haskins Ranch	0.00 in	0.00 in	22.09 in
Leroy Anderson Dam	0.00 in	0.00 in	18.07 in
Mt Hamilton	0.00 in	0.00 in	26.77 in
Shanti Ashrama	0.00 in	0.00 in	18.82 in
Penitencia WTP	0.00 in	0.00 in	16.26 in
UTC	0.00 in	0.00 in	17.09 in
Cow Ridge	0.00 in	0.00 in	24.72 in
City of San Jose	0.00 in	0.00 in	14.88 in
Evergreen	0.00 in	0.00 in	13.39 in