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Calabazas Creek, Miller Avenue to Wardell Road
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| Web | link |
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| Start Date | 2010/04/01 |
| End Date | 2012/12/31 |
| Progress | planned |
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| Location Description | Calabazas Creek Watershed |
The project goal is to provide flood protection to homes, streets, businesses, and public facilities in the Calabazas Creek watershed using Natural Flood Protection approach. The construction work will be limited to Calabazas Creek between Miller Avenue and Wardell Road as dictated by the Clean Safe Creeks program. However, the study area has been extended to include the Comer Debris Basin and Comer Drive.
The project will also restore the creek through the repair of the eroded channel banks using biotechnical slope stability measures, stabilize chanel invert, remove accumulated sediment, and improve fish passage.
Calabazas Creek extends approximately 13.3 miles from the confluence with the Guadalupe Slough to the Saratoga foothills. Previous projects have provided flood protection on Calabazas Creek from San Francisco Bay up to Miller Avenue. This project completes the needed flood protection in the Calabazas Creek watershed. The project would protect 2,483 homes, businesses, and schools from the one-percent flood, saving potential flood damages in excess of $30.9 million. The project would also improve the health of the stream by stablizing the chanell invert and repairing the bank erosions.
The project objectives are to provide flood protection for all flows up to the one-percent flood, erosion protection, and creek restoration for Calabazas Creek between Miller Avenue and Comer Drive
Sediment Removal,
Watershed Management,
Fish Passage,
Clean Safe Creeks Program,
Creeks,
Bank Repair,
Calabazas Creek,
Flood Protection
Ecosystem Restoration,
Environmental and habitat protection and improvement,
Flood management
Flood Protection & Stormwater Management
