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City engineer outlines three‑phase plan to restore flood‑diversion channel, urges interagency coordination and grants pursuit
Summary
Public works staff presented a multi‑decade, three‑phase plan to restore and upgrade the city’s flood‑diversion channel to reduce flood risk. Officials described historical Corps plans not fully implemented, a need for maintenance easements, and funding paths including state grants, USBR cooperation and potential congressional assistance.
During public works reports the city’s flood‑diversion channel and sheet‑flow floodplain were described as degraded and underfunctioning. Staff reviewed a 1972 Corps design that was never fully completed and said the channel is now partly filled with 3–4 feet of bedload and trees growing in the levee that weaken it.
“The goal, the end goal, is to get us out of the floodplain,” staff said, describing a three‑phase approach: (1) notify and educate property owners and agencies of maintenance duties, (2) restart maintenance to restore at least the…
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