San Francisquito Creek flood control project nearing completion

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Work continues on the trail along San Francisquito Creek in Palo Alto.

I checked out a portion of trail on San Francisquito Creek I’ve used over the years to reach the Dumbarton Bridge recreation path.

It starts at the Baylands Athletic Center in Palo Alto on the east side of Hwy 101. There’s still work to be done, but I can see a high wall along the creek that looks like steel panels. Ugly. It looks like it will be finished by the end of this year.

People who haven’t lived in Palo Alto for a long time may not know that the creek is prone to flooding during heavy, prolonged rains. My friend Jobst Brandt, who lived on Middlefield Road near Lytton, saw his basement flood in the 1980s when the creek went over its banks.

There’s a lot of other work associated with this flood control project.