SF Bay to Highway 101.

The completed Reach 1 “Downstream Project”

The SFCJPA’s projects use the term “Reach” to describe a specific segment of the San Francisquito Creek, or the Bay shoreline. In the case of the Reach 1 project, this describes the area of the Creek from where Highway 101 crosses the creek, to the mouth of the creek at the Bay shoreline.

Completed in 2019, this complex, multi-benefit project included: widening the creek channel and building new larger engineered levees. Where there was no room to widen the channel, floodwalls were installed. The project resulted in more than 22 acres of new or improved marsh habitat.  New trails, including key connections to the Bay Traill, were developed on top of the new levees.

The project required relocating and upgrading critical sanitary sewer, gas and electrical infrastructure, and installed a new recycled water pipeline for East Palo Alto. This project was built with local funding from SFCJPA partners and State funding from the Department of Water Resources.

The project protects more than 1700 properties from a 100-year creek flood during a King tide event, and specifically incorporated three feet of sea level rise. When considering the additional safety factor of three feet known as "freeboard," our project provides 10 feet of protection from rising tides, compared to today's daily high tide. 

In August, 2020 the project was recognized by the International Partnering Institute  https://partneringinstitute.org/ (IPI), where the San Francisquito Creek Flood Control Project Team was awarded a 2020 “IPI Partnered Project of the Year.” 

Project Documents

Approved Mitigation and Monitoring Plan

Year 1 Mitigation Monitoring Report

Adaptive Management Plan

Final Environmental Impact Report (FEIR)

EIR Appendices A - C

EIR Appendices D - F