'It's not going to be a matter of days.' More than 2,000 Pajaro residents are still evacuated after a breached levee has been closed, but are anxious about repairs they know will need to be done to their flood-damaged homes.
"It was determined long time ago that the current levees are not adequate," Shaunna Murray of the County's Water Resources Agency said at the briefing.
The county says that they have done as much maintenance as they can with the funding they've been provided and do expect more funding.But there is hope that the process can be accelerated. "The conversation is pivoting as we speak amidst all this emergency response to how can we remove as many administrative barriers as we can to get this project started," said Mark Strudley, the Executive Director of the recently formed Pajaro Regional Flood Management Agency.The plan is for the agency to eventually implement the new levee reconstruction project and take over maintenance and operations.
Strudley says he has calls set up with the White House and key government agencies about getting the project moving faster. "I'm really hopeful that this is catching the attention of the agencies of the Army Corps, and that the tremendous amount of support that we've actually been getting from them recently is going to accelerate to the point where we actually can put this project in the ground sooner than we all thought and now we can complete it sooner than we all thought," Strudley said.
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