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| Continuing Authorities Program (CAP) 205 Project |
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Friday, June 27 2003 @ 02:20 PM PDT
Contributed by: Alex Hunter, DSFNA Webmaster
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Continuing Authorities Program (CAP) 205 Project
May 22, 2003 JPA Board Meeting
A flood control project for San Francisquito Creek
was approved by the San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority (JPA) Board at
the May 22, 2003 meeting. The funding for San Francisquito Creek was made
available through the Continuing Authorities Project (CAP) 205, a program of the
Army Corps of Engineers-San Francisco District Office. The Federal offer of
$7 million is for construction work along the 14-mile system that runs from
Interstate 280 to the bay. The board requested that the project -- granted to
the JPA by the Army Corps last summer -- focus on the portion of the creek
between Highway 101 and the San Francisco Bay.
Potential plans selected for the Army Corps'
consideration include adding flow capacity at Highway 101 with a new culvert,
widening the channel below 101, or creating a second channel, or flood basin,
inside Palo Alto's municipal golf course. Also to be studied will
be solutions that increase the creek's
capacity, stabilize the banks, and/or deal with in-stream impediments to high
flows.
Creek neighbors, frightened by the threat of
flooding and eager to see something done immediately, want the $10 million
project to be the first step in safeguarding all those living near the creek. It
is expected to take three to five years, beginning
with the Army Corps' study, and would require approximately $3 million of local
matching funds. It would also add security for Palo Alto and East Palo Alto
residents and businesses most vulnerable to raging creek water.
The following PowerPoint presentation was made at
the May 22, 2003 JPA Board meeting (6.5MB in PDF format):
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| San Francisquito Creek Flood Control Long-term Options and CAP 205 Potential |
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Thursday, April 10 2003 @ 10:46 AM PDT
Contributed by: Alex Hunter, DSFNA Webmaster
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Can We Do It Now?
Or Do We Need Years More Study?
A group of local experts presents a long-term approach to
eliminating flood risk from San Francisquito Creek, and how we can take the
first steps now On Thursday, 4/10, from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
local residents met to hear potential short-term and long-term solutions to San
Francisquito Creek flood problems. The meeting, co-sponsored by the Duveneck/St.
Francis and Crescent Park neighborhood associations, was held at the Palo Alto
Art Center, 1313 Newell Road.
A group of Crescent Park and Duveneck/St. Francis residents have found a way
to make progress toward reducing the creek's threat. With their technical
expertise, they have explored a way to prioritize the use of the federal funding
for a short-term CAP 205, and a possible longer-term GI project. The meeting
featured:
- The history of the San Francisquito Creek,
- Computer models of water flow in the creek,
- The effect of the bridges between El Camino Real and Highway 101, and
- A flood control approach and potential projects for discussion and
consideration.
The residents' group working on the analysis includes:
- Stephen Monismith, Stanford Professor of Civil Engineering and head
of the Environmental Fluid Mechanics Laboratory;
- Tom Rindfleisch, a physicist and Stanford research computer
scientist retired after 30 years in the Departments of Computer Science and
Medicine;
- Steve Bisset, formerly Co-Founder and CEO of Megatest Corp. and
currently VP, Operations at Acuitus, Inc., who holds a B.S. in Electrical
Engineering from the California Institute of Technology;
- Art Kraemer, who holds undergraduate and advanced degrees in
Electrical Engineering from Cornell and Stanford, respectively;
- Xenia Hammer, who holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Yale
University and an M.B.A from Stanford; and
- Stan Smith, B.S. & M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of
California at Berkeley and M.B.A. Stanford Graduate School of Business.
The original PowerPoint presentation, including animations, can be downloaded here. |
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