Priority E: Provide Flood Protection to Homes, Businesses, Schools, Streets, and Highways
Priority E focuses on providing flood protection through major capital construction projects. Projects are prioritized to protect the largest number of people, homes and businesses, as well as safeguard the highways, streets, public transportation and business centers that people depend on for their livelihoods.
Almost all the construction projects under this priority describe a preferred project that relies on state and federal government funding and a local-funding-only project. Should federal funding become scarce, Valley Water would reduce the project scope to the local-funding-only project, as described in the individual project summaries. Whenever possible, Valley Water also leverages funds from state, local municipalities and other stakeholders.
Climate change is a global reality and is expected to result in sea-level rise and more variable weather patterns, leading to potentially bigger and more frequent floods. Valley Water incorporates climate change projections, especially sea-level rise, in design and construction of more resilient flood protection projects that increase the capacity of channels to convey higher storm events without overbanking into local streets, highways and neighborhoods.
Project E1: Coyote Creek Flood Protection
Project E2: Sunnyvale East and Sunnyvale West Channels Flood Protection
Project E3: Lower Berryessa Flood Protection (Phase 3)
Project E4: Upper Penitencia Creek Flood Protection
Project E5: San Francisquito Creek Flood Protection
Project E6: Upper Llagas Creek Flood Protection