Addressing flooding on the Pajaro River has been an issue for more than a century. Its location separating two counties — Santa Cruz and Monterey — means it has never gotten the full attention of either.
Just months after a levee failure inundated the small farmworker community of Pajaro, Calif., and sent thousands fleeing, cracks have already begun forming in the regional agency tasked with maintaining flood infrastructure.
In a letter to Santa Cruz County supervisors, Luis Alejo, a Monterey County supervisor and board member of the flood agency, said that withdrawing the funds would undermine the agency’s “ability to advance important capital improvement repairs and projects” and “is not consistent with the notion of partnership embodied by the formation” of the agency.
Zone 7A, part of which runs along the river — but does not include Watsonville — also suffered flood damage. However, much of the damage had nothing to do with the flooding river. “People, in my opinion, don’t care how they were getting flooded; they just want it fixed,” he said, referring to his constituents who live in Zone 7A.
Stu Townsley, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ deputy district engineer for project management for the San Francisco region, agreed.
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