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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