This revelation prompted strenuous debate over whether the Brown Act had been violated, and whether it was even a good idea to consider changing the ordinance in the first place. The system got its first test last week and flunked, entirely missing a six-foot surge in San Francisquito Creek.
Officials say water sensors worked properly and blamed unspecified network errors for the outage.
Promises have been made that the glitch will be fixed before the next big rains.