The Guadalupe River is an important resource for both humans and wildlife. Humans rely on the river for water supply, recreation, and economic generation, while wildlife use the river as habitat for feeding, breeding, and rearing.
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Contaminants can be washed into the river. Also, cloudy water will hide hazards such as logs, branches, broken glass, and metal. We recommend waiting approximately 5 days after heavy rainfall (rainfall that produces significant runoff from streets/hillsides into river) to resume swimming.
It was determined that the Guadalupe River does not have sufficient capacity to carry the 100-year flows it was originally designed for. The stretch of creek without sufficient capacity is between Tasman Drive and Interstate 880.
The river was first called after Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe by Alonso de León in 1689. It was renamed the San Augustin by Domingo Terán de los Ríos who maintained a colony on it, but the name Guadalupe persisted.