Guadalupe River Gauge Sequence - San Jose, CA
Posted by: DougK
N 37° 16.855 W 121° 52.807
10S E 599276 N 4126623
A set of river gauges located up the slope of the Guadalupe River along Old Almaden Road near the Willow Glen area of San Jose, CA.
Waymark Code: WM61YK
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 03/18/2009
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This is the site of a small spillway on the Guadalupe River, normally a small stream during most of the year. An interesting
web site describes the flooding possibility of this urban stream. In 1995, San Jose experienced it's greatest flood in history as the Guadalupe river overflowed, covering freeways into the downtown.
Interestingly, the gauges are graduated in feet, and with major divisions in tenths of a foot (instead of inches), with further subdivisions of .02 of a foot.