“However, we want to strongly emphasize that we are not out of the woods by any stretch of the imagination,” said Brian Ferguson, deputy director of crisis communications for the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services.
Los Angeles County sends half a million tons of sewage sludge to Tulare Lake every year. Will it contaminate rising floodwaters?
“There is still a huge amount of water up there, and I think folks may be forgetting this because at low to middle elevations, the snow is largely gone,” Swain said. “There’s still major concern about Corcoran and some of these towns that are literally within this basin,” Swain said. “Agricultural land in that area is going to be flooded for months, and there’s still significant risk to populated areas in parts of the San Joaquin Valley for the next few weeks at least, and probably for the next couple of months.”
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