Levee breaks
The Chronicle has the story. Two Central Valley levees broke today under pounding rain, threatening 50 homes and a trailer park in Merced and flooding farmland south of Sacramento, according to the state Department of Water Resources. A trailer park also was flooded when water overflowed from Black Rascal Creek in Merced. A levee on the other side of the same creek was breached, dumping water into a housing subdivision, said Michael Miller, a spokesman with the water resources department. On the Cosumnes River west of Highway 99 in Sacramento County, a private agricultural levee broke, sending floodwaters over farmland, Miller said. Overall, the state's levees were holding and "working as they're designed to work," said Ted Thomas, another spokesman with the water resources department. |
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