State will pay to raise levee protecting Corcoran city and prison complex from flooding
Local and county officials have for weeks been pleading with the state to help finance the project — athat will involve raising the 14.5-mile earthen embankment about 4 feet to keep floodwaters at bay. The levee is key to protecting critical infrastructure in the area, including medical facilities, power plants and dual prison facilities that hold about 8,000 inmates.
“California is facing unprecedented weather whiplash — we just experienced the driest three years on record, and now we’re dealing with historic flooding,” Newsom said in a statement. “Our investments must match this reality of climate-driven extremes.” “This is a huge relief,” Gatzka said Thursday. “Knowing that we can fully fund this Corcoran levee reinforcement so that we can protect the whole entire community and two state prisons, from not only the existing flooding that’s already out there — which is about 360,000 acre-feet of water — but the oncoming water that we know is coming from this massive snowmelt.”
Also announced Thursday was a revision to the state’s proposed budget that will include an additional $290 million for flood response and preparation projects in the state. The $290 million would come on top of $202 million in flood investments proposed in January. The May budget revision is expected to be released Friday.The only thing preventing floodwaters from inundating the city of Corcoran is an aging, 14-mile-long wall of dirt.
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