FREMONT(KRON) — For the past week, the Alameda County Public Works Department has been operating a rolling closure of the Alameda Creek Regional Trail from Niles Canyon Road in Fremont to the bay, allowing crews to perform flood control maintenance.
The Alameda County Water District is paying close attention to the creek itself — which by Tuesday afternoon was flowing at a low rate of 230 cubic feet per second. But should the storm escalate, the district is prepared for the water to flow at a rate as high as 7,000 cubic feet per second.
“Last year was the first time I ever saw it get really high, but it’s never flooded all the way over,” said neighbor Jennifer Luis.
The water district says it doesn’t believe the creek will crest during this storm event either.
The water district says even if the water flow reaches 7,000 cubic feet per second — flooding is unlikely. “I walk the creek there and whenever there’s a storm coming, they lower the dam down to let the water go through,” said another neighbor Vince Limtiaco.
On Tuesday, the water district deflated two rubber dams it has installed in the creek.
Neighbors noticed the dams being deflated monday as well — mitigation that seems to work.
“Right where the grass starts up on the rocks and it gets about that high and when it gets that high, it’s definitely raging,” Luis said. And, the hope is that the creek doesn’t reach that point.
But if it does the water district and county public works department says they’re prepared.
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