Watershed

Lower Peninsula

Stevens, Permanente, Adobe and San Francisquito creeks drop off the Santa Cruz Mountains through Cupertino, Los Altos, Mountain View and Palo Alto on short, steep runs to the Bay.

16 stream gauges · 12 rain gauges · 1 reservoir · drains to San Francisco Bay

Lower Peninsula watershed sensors plotted at their published coordinates over Valley Water's major-watershed polygons. — 16 stream, 12 rain, and 1 reservoir sensors in the Lower Peninsula watershed, plotted at their published coordinates. Valley Water publishes San Francisquito, Adobe, Permanente as a major watersheds 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 Lower Peninsula watershed
Reservoir	Storage	Elevation	Spills at
Stevens Creek Reservoir	2,647 acre-feet	531.6 ft	535 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.

Stevens Creek

3 gauges, ordered south to north down the creek

Stevens Creek below Stevens Creek Reservoir
2.15 ft · 2.15 cfs · 3.85 ft below threshold 1
Stevens Creek above I-280
3.27 ft · 0.83 cfs · no published threshold
Stevens Creek above CA-85 near Central Ave
2.56 ft · 0 cfs · 12.94 ft below threshold 1

Adobe Creek

2 gauges, ordered south to north down the creek

Adobe Creek at Foothill College
0.91 ft · 0.44 cfs · no published threshold
Adobe Creek d/s El Camino Real
1.32 ft · 0.5 cfs · no published threshold

Permanente Creek

2 gauges, ordered south to north down the creek

Permanente Creek at Rancho San Antonio Park
2.18 ft · 0 cfs · 6.82 ft below threshold 1
Permanente Creek above Berry Ave
1.14 ft · 0 cfs · 5.36 ft below threshold 1

Other Gauges Here

Bear Creek at Sand Hill Road (Stanford) 0.00 ft
Los Trancos Creek at Arastradero Road 0.00 ft
Matadero Creek at Lambert Ave 3.14 ft
McKelvey Park Pump Sensor 3.78 ft
Palo Alto Flood Basin -1.20 ft
San Francisquito Creek at Stanford (USGS) 0.20 ft
Searsville Lake Outflow 0.00 ft
Stevens Creek Inflow 3.77 ft
West Permanente Creek below Dear Hollow Farm 2.75 ft

Rain Gauges Here

Rain gauges in the Lower Peninsula watershed
Gauge	Last hour	Last 24 hours	Season
Sunnyvale Hamilton WTP	0.00 in	0.00 in	16.10 in
Stevens Creek Reservoir	0.00 in	0.00 in	28.31 in
Mtn View Corp Yard	0.00 in	0.00 in	14.09 in
Palo Alto Reclamation Plant	0.00 in	0.00 in	12.40 in
Rancho San Antonio	0.00 in	0.00 in	26.81 in
Trappers Trail	0.00 in	0.00 in	30.59 in
Maryknoll Fields	0.00 in	0.00 in	19.29 in
Los Trancos	0.00 in	0.00 in	40.87 in
Westwind Community Barn	0.00 in	0.00 in	20.31 in
Windy Hill (JPA)	0.00 in	0.00 in	34.17 in
Wunderlich (JPA)	0.00 in	0.00 in	37.36 in
Huddart Park (JPA)	0.00 in	0.00 in	33.66 in