[Maple Leaf]

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Lake Lag is not part of the flood protection plan. It has to be intentionally filled.

The Barron Creek Diversion and Matadero Creek Bypass Projects were completed in the late '80s / early '90s.  They were fully tested during the 1998 event. I have that minute-by-minute record stored on our server somewhere. It was dicey. The diversion worked as intended, but the 1998 event identified capacity problems with Matadero Creek between Alma Street and the flood basin, since it is taking the diverted flow from the Barron Creek watershed. We were retained to sort those out. The subsequent remediation project was completed in the early 'oughts. Matadero and Barron should be OK. There are still problems with San Francisquito Creek and Adobe Creek.

A lot of mud out on the streets of Belmont and San Carlos this morning. Belmont Creek may have overtopped near Harbor.

It is my understanding that Lake Lag was constructed way back when to provide irrigation water for the campus. Of course, the lake provided the needed environment for the development of critical social behaviors such as:

• skinning dipping
  
• group skinning dipping
  
• hunting for frogs and polliwogs
  
• alligator depository (thanks to some local high school kids) 
  
• various types of boat races
  
• drinking beer while cruising around in an innertube
  
• training of Labrador retrievers
  

[Maple Leaf]

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Lake Lag is not part of the flood protection plan. It has to be intentionally filled.

The Barron Creek Diversion and Matadero Creek Bypass Projects were completed in the late '80s / early '90s.  They were fully tested during the 1998 event. I have that minute-by-minute record stored on our server somewhere. It was dicey. The diversion worked as intended, but the 1998 event identified capacity problems with Matadero Creek between Alma Street and the flood basin, since it is taking the diverted flow from the Barron Creek watershed. We were retained to sort those out. The subsequent remediation project was completed in the early 'oughts. Matadero and Barron should be OK. There are still problems with San Francisquito Creek and Adobe Creek.

A lot of mud out on the streets of Belmont and San Carlos this morning. Belmont Creek may have overtopped near Harbor.

It is my understanding that Lake Lag was constructed way back when to provide irrigation water for the campus. Of course, the lake provided the needed environment for the development of critical social behaviors such as:

• skinning dipping
  
• group skinning dipping
  
• hunting for frogs and polliwogs
  
• alligator depository (thanks to some local high school kids) 
  
• various types of boat races
  
• drinking beer while cruising around in an innertube
  
• training of Labrador retrievers