The funding for our levee improvements is slowly moving through Congress, and it is a daily reminder of why strategic planning needs to be done, problems anticipated and solutions developed prior to the problems actually rising.
Families used to call it, “Saving for a rainy day.”; a good concept for families, a good concept for government.
An excerpt.
Senate voting today on funds to fix levees
Boxer amendment is approved to hasten flood control report on Folsom Dam.
By David Whitney -- Bee Washington BureauPublished 12:01 am PDT Wednesday, July 19, 2006
WASHINGTON -- The Senate is expected to approve today a water resources bill authorizing $106 million in levee repairs and improvement work in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, a $16 million jump from the last authorization bill two years ago.
On Tuesday, the Senate also approved an amendment by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., that would keep the pressure on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation to complete a report on flood control improvements to Folsom Dam by June 2007 so that design work can begin.
"We all know bureaucracies," Boxer said. "They'll figure out one way to delay, and then another … We pray that during that there will not be a catastrophic flood."
