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Major project aimed at fixing a decades old problem. Reporter this is a huge day for East Palo Alto residents. This is the san fransesquito creek. It overflowed in 2012 after heavy rains caused evacuations and damage to businesses. Now, the creek has flooded many times before and officials have known they needed to do something for decades. They have worked on this since the 50s but political and Environmental Issues got in the way. Meanwhile, people whose homes are below sea level say they felt helpless. One homeowner recounted the horrific 1998 flooding. About 3 a. M. , a foot to foot and a half of water in our yard that filled our crawl space and almost came inside the house. And, um, it it was reall scary. Its a huge event. Every year, when it rains heavily, they worry about flooding. Reporter so officials broke ground on the project today which will widen the creek and make it deeper. But it wont be done until the end of 2018 because they cant work on it from october to may becaus

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