The 32-acre Almaden Lake is a man-made lake owned by Valley Water that is located within a City of San José park. The lake was once a gravel quarry and is fed by Alamitos Creek, which flows into the south end of the lake and exits into Guadalupe Creek at the north. Over the years,…
Cal Engineering & Geology completed geotechnical design and services during construction for the ACFCWCD Large Trash Capture Project. The project consisted of the design of trash capture devices at key locations along Estudillo Canal and San Lorenzo Creek. The type of trash capture devices at both locations was selected based on hydraulic constraints identified in…
City of Daly City retained CE&G to evaluate the geotechnical and geologic conditions along the proposed access road realignment. Severe winter storms in 1997/98 damaged a 30-inch diameter corrugated metal storm drain pipe in the canyon causing substantial erosion at the point of the pipe break. The eroded slopes removed a portion of Avalon Drive…
Cal Engineering & Geology was retained by San Mateo County Department of Public Works as part of our on-call contract to investigate an emergency landslide, with a 50-foot portion of Old La Honda Road slipping down the hillside. When called to the site, CE&G prepared a topographic survey utilizing an Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) drone…
State Route 37 (SR 37) is a 21-mile corridor located along the San Pablo Bay in the San Francisco Bay Area and connects the North Bay counties of Marin, Sonoma, Napa and Solano. In 2016, the Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC), California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) District 4, and the four North Bay transportation authorities formed…
