It is good to hear the process is moving along well.
Flood-control spending set at $110 million
Army Corps announces priorities for Sacramento-area river projects.
By David Whitney - Bee Washington Bureau
Published 12:00 am PDT Thursday, March 22, 2007
Sacramento will get all the money it needs for ongoing flood-control work this year, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers confirmed Wednesday.
Rep. Doris Matsui, D-Sacramento, said late Tuesday that the corps had completed work on its spending priorities for 2007 and that a record $110 million will be spent on Sacramento-area projects.
While the corps has consistently maintained that Sacramento is a top priority, money for work this summer was in doubt because of Congress' failure to pass a spending bill for water projects last year.
Congress, now under Democratic control, approved a resolution in February funding the government but without all of the specific earmarks, such as those that have guided corps spending in Sacramento.
Instead, the congressional resolution left it up to the corps to set priorities about how it would spend more than $2 billion appropriated to it.
Those priorities were released this week.
"This is going to keep us on track," said Christine Altendorf, deputy district engineer for project management in the corps' Sacramento office.
