Every rainy season, I try to "calibrate" the depth of the main creek crossing on the Canyon Trail with the Valley Water flow sensor near Stevens Creek Reservoir. This changes year to year as the creek bed cuts and fills in different areas. I figured I would upload this video to share my information on the 2023-24 season.
Stevens Creek Inflow (Stream Sensor 5045)
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5-6 CFS low - cross-able with dry feet
28-30 CFS high - knee deep crossing
From the look of the muddy water and the slow decay of the flow rate, it appears the soil has become saturated up in the Santa Cruz Mtns. That means the creek will rise up much higher with a given rainfall amount and also take longer to drop back down. You can see over this season, the in between storm water flow has been creeping up about 1 CFS per storm. Officially, the trail is "closed" when it's "flooded", per the Open Space District and County Parks signs.
My friend Richard maintains a Trail water level page with status on a number of popular bike paths in the Santa Clara valley. He scrapes rainfall data from various real-time rainfall sites and correlates that to water levels in the associated creeks/rivers and relates that to elevations of low lying under crossings on those trails:
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