All the koi at the Japanese Friendship Garden in San Jose, photographed Jan. 18, 2023, have been relocated to a single pond since the 2017 Coyote Creek flood. (Sal Pizarro/Bay Area News Group)
The koi at San Jose’s Japanese Friendship Garden could use another helping hand from the community.
The Coyote Creek flood in February 2017 devastated the garden at Kelley Park, flooding the picturesque venue’s tea house and damaging the filtering system and pumps for the koi ponds. The surviving koi were moved to one pond, and the nonprofit San Jose Parks Foundation installed two temporary, portable filters for the pond in