Looks like the repairs will be done in time for the rainy season, good news, but the rock shoring up is sure ugly. It is the method used when you rush the repairs rather than the more beautiful combination of rock and landscaping that can be used when the proper repair planning is used as part of a regular schedule of maintenance.
An excerpt.
Crucial levee repairs under way
Regional officials join governor at one of 26 sites to be strengthened.
By Kevin Yamamura -- Bee Capitol Bureau Published 12:01 am PDT Wednesday, July 12, 2006
With a large tractor, a pile of rocks and hard-hat-wearing construction workers carefully positioned in the background, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and a bipartisan group of local representatives stood Tuesday along the Sacramento River in Yolo County to tout emergency levee repairs that began this month.
State and federal agencies agreed in May to expedite planning procedures to ensure that 29 levee locations, most along the Sacramento River, will be strengthened by Nov. 1.
The Republican governor declared a state of emergency in February, saying he hoped to avoid a New Orleans-like disaster in California. In subsequent months, state and federal officials drew up plans for $170 million in repairs at the most critical spots where waterways had eroded levee banks.
Schwarzenegger was joined Tuesday by Sacramento Mayor Heather Fargo and West Sacramento Mayor Christopher Cabaldon, both Democrats, as well as other state and local officials at a rural levee being repaired southeast of Knights Landing.
"Too many of our levees are weak and at risk of failure," Schwarzenegger said. "The levees that (protect) our drinking water, our supply and our hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland and millions of people are in danger. And this is why we wanted to work on this as quickly as possible."
