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Public hearing
Modification to the San Francisquito Creek Flood Protection Project Priority E 0ROVIDE mOOD PROTECTION TO HOMES BUSINESS SCHOOLS AND HIGHWAYS
What:
Public Hearing on Modification to the San Francisquito Creek Flood Protection Project
When: June 10, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. Photo by Eric Millette
Steve Blank is a resident of Menlo Park.
Steve Blank is honored Menlo Park resident Steve Blank recently received the 2014 Outstanding Leadership Award, jointly presented to him by the National Science Foundation and the National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance. The award recognizes Mr. Blank’s years of work in the field of technological advancement and his dedication to working with the next generation of innovators in the classroom and elsewhere. He received the award at the National Innovation Network Meeting in Washington, D.C., in April. Mr. Blank is the co-founder of the National Science Foundation Innovation Corps, has written two popular books on entrepreneurship, and made Forbes’ 2013 list of the “30 Most Influential People in Tech.� He teaches a curriculum he developed as part of the Innovation Corps at Stanford, U.C. Berkeley and UCSF. In April, he delivered the commencement address for the ESADE Business School in Barcelona, Spain. — Emma Marsano
Where: District Headquarters — Board Room 5700 Almaden Expressway, San Jose, CA 95118 Due to the level of external funding available, staff recommends modifying the program document to advise the public of the level of flood protection that can be achieved at this time. As stated in the Modified Project Description, the local-state-funding-only project will be the same as the preferred project downstream of Highway 101; but upstream of Highway 101, the project will remedy channel constrictions and modify bridges at Newell Road and Pope/Chaucer Street to allow the channel to contain flood waters equal to the channel’s capacity of 7,000 cubic feet per second (cfs), approximately a 30-year flood event. Allowing this level of water to flow through the channel will protect approximately 3,000 parcels in Palo Alto from a flood event close to the February 1998 flood , the largest on record. Currently, the channel can only convey a 15-year flood event. If sufficient funding becomes available, a 1 percent (100-year) flood protection project upstream of Highway 101, including some combination of: modifications to the University Avenue and Middlefield Road bridges; upstream detention; underground bypass channels; and floodwalls, could be built.
San Francisquito Creek,1950s flood event
Proposed modifications to key performance indicators: 1. Preferred project with federal, state and local funding: Protect more than 3,000 parcels by providing 1 percent flood protection. 2. With state and local funding only: Protect approximately 3,000 parcels from flooding (100-year protection downstream of Highway 101, and approximately 30-year protection upstream of Highway 101). The full board agenda memo will be posted online on May 30, 2014 at www.valleywater.org. For more information on the public hearing, please contact Melanie Richardson at (408) 630-2035, or by email at mrichardson@valleywater.org.
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