Santa Clara Valley Water District

Sixteen major creeks drain this 322 - square - mile area (see map and click to enlarge). The county's largest watershed, it extends from the urbanized valley floor upward to the vast natural areas of the Mt. Hamilton range. Coyote Creek, its main waterway, is the longest creek in the county.

Coyote Watershed is also home to Penitencia Water Treatment Plant, the water district treatment plant serving an area from Milpitas in the north to Aborn Road in the south. The treatment plant is a source of drinking for 270,000 residential and commercial users.

• Fast facts about the Coyote Watershed
• How to report a problem in a creek: Go to our Access Valley Water online customer request and information system
• How to contact district staff working in your watershed
  Call the water district phone numbers listed below, or click on a name for e-mail.
• Current Neighborhood Work Notices - Stream Maintenance Program
• Lower Coyote Creek Levees Operations, Maintenance, Repair, Replacement and Rehabilitation (OMRR&R) Manual 2010, US Army Corps of Engineers & Santa Clara Valley Water District, Santa Clara County, CA
• Volume 1
• Volume 2 - Appendices A-G
• Volume 2 - Appendices H-L

Projects in this watershed:

• Stream Maintenance Projects
• Sierra Creek - 2010
• Norwood Creek - 2010
• Upper Penitencia Creek - 2010
• Upper Berryessa Creek - 2010
• Los Coches Creek - 2010
• Miguelita Creek - 2010
• Quimby Creek -2010
• Thompson Creek - 2010
• Calera Creek - 2010

•  Flood Protection
• Lower Berryessa Creek Flood Protection Project
• Upper Berryessa Creek Flood Protection Project
• Upper Penitencia Creek Flood Protection Project
• Lower Silver Creek - Coyote Creek to Lake Cunningham 
• Mid-Coyote Creek Project
  
  
• Healthy Creeks & Ecosystems
• Island Ponds Project