The Santa Clara Valley Water District will spend the next year and a half installing levees and flood walls along Coyote Creek -- protections designed to prevent a recurrence of the catastrophic flooding from 2017.
"The water rose up very fast," says Hien Nguyen whose apartment was inundated with several feet of water as the creek spilled its banks.
On Monday, Valley Water and the City of San Jose began clearing homeless encampments from a 10-mile stretch of the waterway in preparation for the project.
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San Jose will start clearing unhoused people from Coyote Creek MondayStarting Monday, the City of San Jose plans to help rehouse 120-200 people living along the waterway. Valley Water says it will make flood improvements along the waterway, but advocates say with limited shelter space and housing, the people living there won’t have any place to go.
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City of San Jose Begins Clearing Out Major Homeless Encampment Along Coyote CreekSan Jose began clearing a major homeless encampment along Coyote Creek Monday, but those being cleared out said they’ve been given no plan or advice on where to go instead.
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Homeless campers cleared from Coyote Creek in San JoseDozens of homeless men and women were removed from their encampments along a four-mile stretch of Coyote Creek in San Jose in an effort that's proving to be controversial.
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San Jose Firefighters Battle String of Overnight Brush FiresSan Jose firefighters are investigating a string of fires overnight Tuesday along the Coyote Creek corridor.
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Cherry Creek State Park suffers significant flood damage, some areas closedHaving received six inches of rain over a three-day period last week, Cherry Creek State Park has sustained significant flood damage that includes road washouts. Some areas of the park have been cl…
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