At the 10:30 a.m. timed item the County Engineer presented an overview of the Del Norte Regional Drainage Study and Capital Improvement Plan, describing a $3,000,000 planning grant that will inventory drainage assets from small culverts to large bridges, model basin‑by‑basin future rainfall and sea‑level scenarios, and prioritize projects for future funding.

The presentation emphasized this is a planning effort only—no construction funding is included—and urged community members to use drainage.dnco.org to report localized drainage problems and drop pins on maps to help identify priority maintenance needs. The county said the consultant GHD is performing detailed inventories and that advanced topographic data (one‑meter or better contours from a North Coast Resource Partnership flyover) are being leveraged to improve modeling accuracy.

Supervisors asked about outreach and whether the county was simultaneously pursuing implementation funding; staff said the field data collection is largely complete, modeling is underway, and staff will pursue construction funding once prioritized projects are defined. Public commenters urged attention to culvert maintenance and noted some residents perceive local rainfall has declined; county staff pointed to 30‑year average precipitation figures as context and encouraged residents to share site‑specific problems via the website.

Next steps: continued public engagement, basin modeling, project prioritization and eventual roll‑up into the county’s capital improvement plan for future funding efforts.