San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority Len Materman, - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

San Francisquito Creek Joint Powers Authority Len Materman, Executive Director

East Palo Alto January 2015 PG&E Ravenswood Substation January 2015

Upcoming changes to San Mateo County’s FEMA floodplain maps Redwood City East Menlo Park Palo Alto DRAFT floodplain maps

The Big Picture SF Bay Redwood City San Francisquito Creek & S.F. Bay Floodplains and Planned Projects East Palo Alto X X X Menlo Park = Bridge replacement X = Channel widening = New levee or floodwall Palo Alto Approximate number of parcels in the 100-year floodplains = Creek floodplain only (3,500 parcels) = Bay floodplain only with 3’ Sea Level Rise (over 2,700 parcels) Mt. View = Overlap of creek and Bay floodplains (2,200 parcels)

SAFER Bay Project Protect 5,000 properties & major infrastructure, restore marshes, connect communities through trails East Northern Palo Alto boundar y Menlo Park Design and analyze (EIR) project elements to remove properties Palo Alto from the FEMA floodplain (100-year tide + 2’ freeboard), with up to Funders as of June 2015 3’ of Sea Level Rise. California Dept. of Water Resources; California Coastal Conservancy; Facebook; Southern Construction (not yet funded) may occur in phases (Phase 1 FEMA, Cities of East Palo Alto, Palo Alto, and Menlo Park; U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service 3’ of SLR with a 100-year Bay tide boundary Phase 2 SLR), and may be geographically separable.

SAFER Bay 2015 in The Assets San Mateo County: 9 reaches, 16 alternatives

SAFER Bay Update – June 2015 • Developed and refined list of feasible alternatives • Engaged key stakeholders: Caltrans, SFPUC, PG&E, Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District, Facebook, Salt Pond Restoration Project, public • Collected available data (property, geotech, hydraulic, etc.) • Requesting right-of-way access to collect additional data Complete feasibility analysis of alternative alignments and features, and select preferred alternative (anticipated Jan. 2016) Complete EIR of alternatives, and design of preferred alternative (anticipated early 2018) Permits and Construction (unknown date)