page_title: Hale Creek
section_title: Watershed
hierarchical_section_title: Hale Creek / Watershed
caption_attribution_description: English: Hale Creek's source canyon just above Neary Quarry in Los Altos Hills, California, where the creek traverses several luxury home properties in the canyon
context_page_description: Hale Creek is a short stream originating in the foothills of Los Altos Hills, California in Santa Clara County, California, United States. Its source is in the Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve upstream and east of Neary Quarry. The creek flows northeasterly 4.6 miles through the cities of Los Altos Hills, Los Altos, and Mountain View before joining Permanente Creek.
context_section_description: Hale Creek drains an area of approximately 5 square miles (13 km²) and has three minor tributaries.
  The source is at about 950 feet (290 m) elevation just north of the Chamise Trail in the Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve in the little valley that flows easterly down to the north side of Neary Quarry. According to the Oakland Museum's map Guide to San Francisco Bay Area Creeks, Hale Creek's tributaries (heading downstream) are Magdalena Creek on the right, then Summerville Creek on the left, then Loyola Creek on the right – all entering Hale Creek upstream of Interstate 280. Hale Creek terminates at its confluence with Permanente Creek at Mountain View Avenue in Mountain View just west of St. Joseph School and south of McKelvey Park.
  Hale Creek is part of the Santa Clara Valley Water District's (SCVWD) Permanente Creek Flood Protection Project which aims to install overflow basins along Hale and Permanente Creeks to catch one hundred year flood waters in order to protect 1,664 parcels (1,378 homes, 160 businesses and 4 schools/institutions) downstream of El Camino Real (saving potential damages in excess of $47.9 million) and prevent flooding of Middlefield Road and Central Expressway, by 12/30/2016 and also to identify opportunities for environmental enhancement such as stream restoration, as well as trails, parks, and open space.
  From its confluence with Permanente Creek upstream to Rose/Rosita Avenue, the channel has been set in a straight concrete channel to move storm flows - at Marilyn Drive it is dated 1952 and at Arboleda Drive it is dated 1960. The concrete sides transition smoothly from rectangle to trapezoid just over 30 feet north of Arboleda Drive. However the SCVWD in 2012 proposed widening and/or deepening this concrete channel.
caption: Hale Creek just above Neary Quarry, where it traverses several luxury home sites in its source canyon
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