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Butte County completes Five Mile Basin emergency work, directs feasibility study and funding path for long‑term solution
Summary
Public Works completed a short‑term SAFE project in the Five Mile Basin that staff say raised the structure’s modeled protection from about a 44‑year to a 130‑year storm. The board directed staff to begin an alternatives analysis, pursue monitoring and maintenance contracts, explore CSA 24/Prop 218 funding and negotiate an MOU with the City of Ch
Butte County officials confirmed completion this month of short‑term SAFE emergency work in the Five Mile Basin and directed staff to pursue a multi‑year plan to monitor, maintain and study long‑term flood control options.
"From tip to tail, the work took about one week to complete," Joshua Packer, director of public works, told the Board of Supervisors, describing targeted vegetation removal, channel shaping and levee repairs completed under the county’s job order contracting program.
The county said the short‑term project cost far less than earlier estimates — currently projected at about $135,000 to $150,000 — and that early hydrologic modeling indicates the work increased the basin’s level of protection, from roughly a 44‑year event to protection modeled at approximately a 130‑year event.
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