Trying to beat the coming rainy season, county supervisors push forward repairs of levees, while moving to shift cost burden to landowners by restarting Pacheco Storm Water District.
When Sheriff Darren Thompson asked supervisors to name new jail facility after retired sheriff Curtis J. Hill, the issue was almost derailed over a lack of insurance connected to actual construction of facility.
In an apparent abandonment of decades of restrictive mindset over local county access to streams and rivers, California Fish and Wildlife gives notice that citizens can enter waterways to clean out debris in the battle against floods.