California lawmakers seek emergency funding for long overdue Pajaro River levee repairs
A coalition of federal lawmakers from California are pressing the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to speed up extensive repair work on the Pajaro River levee system in Monterey County that has taken decades to begin despite multiple breaches of the levee, most recently on the night of March 10, when the entire community of Pajaro was evacuated because of flooding. In a letter to the Corps dated Monday, U.S. Sens. Alex Padilla and Dianne Feinstein and U.S. Reps. Jimmy Panetta and Zoe Lofgren asked the Corps to use emergency funding to expedite technical and direct assistance with the flood control work, speed up the review process and expedite the release of $149 million that was already approved for the levee project in late 2021 as part of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
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