Water defines 7 of 8 county borders touching S.F. Bay

Addressing Sea Level Rise is a shared responsibility

Two counties and three cities on the Peninsula

San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority

Len Materman, Executive Director

But that doesn’t have to mean inaction

Palo Alto

East Palo Alto

Menlo Park

Stanford

50 square miles; two counties; six towns; local, state, & national parks sites; major rail & highways, a regional airport, Postal Service facility, and major research university

Watershed

Floodplain

San Francisquito Creek

East Palo Alto

Palo Alto

1 mile

S.F. Bay

Mt. View

Redwood City

= creek floodplain only (3,500 parcels)= Bay floodplain only (2,700 parcels)= both floodplains simultaneously (2,200 parcels)

Floodplains in Menlo Park, East Palo Alto and Palo Alto

Menlo Park

Approximate number of parcels in the 100-year floodplains

Floodwalls

Levees

Palo Alto

Allows for a restored connection between creek & marshland

Protecting people and property from San Francisco Bay to Highway 101

Design objective: 100-year creek flow, 50 years (26”) of SLR, 100-year tide, and 3’ of freeboard

• Protects over 1,000 parcels from creek flows and tides exiting channel

• Creates 14 acres of new marsh habitat• Enables new golf course and trails• Enables flood protection work upstream• Provides new, safer PG&E gas pipeline

East Palo Alto

Menlo Park

East Palo Alto

N

Ravenswood Ponds

Creek 100-year floodplain overlapped with Bay floodplain

Palo Alto

Potential horizontal levees with upland transition zone

30” of SLR with a 100-year Bay tide

Strategy to Advance Flood protection, Ecosystems and Recreation along the Bay

SAFER Bay

FundersState of CACities of East Palo Alto and Menlo ParkFacebook, Inc.U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service