San Francisquito Creek Storm Water Pump Station

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San Francisquito Creek Storm Water Pump Station

• Joe Teresi
• Public Works Department
• November 9, 2005

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Overview

• Existing Conditions
• Current Project Status
• Issues to be Addressed
• Solicit Your Comments

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Existing Conditions
San Francisquito Creek
Highway 101
96 storm drain --?
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Existing Conditions

• Existing storm drain outfall serves 1250-acre
  watershed
• Last pipe segment is flat
• Discharges to bottom of channel
• Area upstream has chronic street flooding during
  high creek levels

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Storm drains cannot drain when the creek level is
higher than the water level in the pipelines
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Pump stations allow runoff to drain to the creeks
even when the creek levels are higher than the
surrounding ground
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New storm water pump station needed to serve
northeastern Palo Alto
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Existing Conditions

• Funding approved as part of storm drain fee
  increase approved by property owners (4.5
  million)
• Highest priority project
• Provides capacity for future Channing/Lincoln
  storm drain project

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Current Status

• Schaaf Wheeler selected to assist with project
  planning/design
• Council award of contract 11/21
• Design completed early 2007
• Construction scheduled for summer 2007

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Issues to be Addressed

• Potential for inducing creek flooding
• Diversion of low flows to sanitary sewer
• Coordination with Watershed Council SF Creek
  JPA
• Permits from multiple resource agencies

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Sample flow analysis
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View looking upstream at existing outfall
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View looking downstream of existing outfall
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Questions and Answers