Water flowing through a gap under Highway 1 is eroding the levee from outside the river channel, officials said as they consider emergency measures to prevent more catastrophic flooding.
continued to put pressure on strained levees in Monterey and Santa Cruz counties on Tuesday as officials considered emergency measures to prevent more catastrophic flooding from hitting the already inundated area.
Adding to the challenge is that water flowing through a gap under Highway 1, between a levee and the highway embankment, is “outside the river channel” and “eroding the levee from the floodplain side rather than the river side,” said Mark Strudley, executive director of the Pajaro Regional Flood Management Agency.
But its location makes it a thorny fix — the only way to access the gap is through through a small, open area that runs between the north and southbound lanes of Highway 1.An incoming storm threatens to overflow the swollen Salinas River, imperiling the lives of farmworkers and crops and triggering evacuations.
If the water overtops or seeps through the levee, “we stand to destroy parts of the plant and may end up releasing untreated sewage to the floodplain, to the river and then ultimately to the Monterey Bay.”Age, drought, rodents and neglect weaken California levees, heightening flood danger
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