When finished in 2027, work will provide 100-year flood protection to downtown Morgan Hill
Downtown Morgan Hill, shown here on Oct. 13, 2009, has flooded many times over the years due to inadequate flood control on Llagas Creek and its tributaries. Nearly every soaking wet winter, Llagas Creek around Morgan Hill has flooded. Its rising, muddy waters poured over the banks in 2017 and in 2009, and many times before that over generations, damaging downtown businesses, homes and farm fields.
“Downtown Morgan Hill was always flooding,” said John Varela, former mayor of Morgan Hill, and now a member of the water district board. “The merchants were just devastated by the flooding. This project has a personal impact on all of us who reside in Morgan Hill.” For the second phase, they dug a 2,000-foot long tunnel under Morgan Hill, 12 feet high and 14 feet wide, near West Main and Hale avenues to take excess flood waters and move them away from downtown. That work finished last month.
Downtown Morgan Hill will have 100-year flood protection. Under that standard, the area is protected from floods so large they only have a 1-in-100 chance of occurring in any given year. “There were other projects, little pieces done over the years,” said Bhavani Yerrapotu, a deputy operating officer at the water district who oversaw the recent work. “But we needed the federal funding to make the big pieces happen.”
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