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  • State, Corps study: One in five Californians faces flood threat

    SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- One in five Californians lives in a flood plain and nearly everyone in California is at risk from flooding. That's the warning delivered by a new, comprehensive report on flood risk throughout the state, developed by the California Department of Water Resources and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' South Pacific Division.
  • State, Corps study: One in five Californians faces flood threat

    “California’s Flood Future: Recommendations for Managing California’s Flood Risk,” a report developed collaboratively by the state of California and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, describes for the first time the specific flood threats and their consequences in every county in California.
  • Willow poles along Sacramento River help fish, won’t harm levees

    A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District project to plant willow poles along 30,000 feet of levees in the Sacramento and San Joaquin river systems is under way, designed to preserve habitat for threatened fish.
  • Leadership Sacramento turns Corps planner into community leader

    Kim Carsell, a planner with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District, is now a graduate of the Sacramento Metro Chamber’s Leadership Sacramento program and helped complete its largest-ever community service project: building an amphitheater for Sacramento educational non-profit Soil Born Farms.
  • 17 Central Valley levee systems lose eligibility for federal rehab assistance

    A total of 17 levee systems in or near Sacramento, Stockton, Chester, Knights Landing and Gustine are now ineligible for federal rehabilitation assistance after a temporary agreement between the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the state of California extending eligibility for deficient levees expired in June.
  • Corps salmon habitat restoration program shows encouraging signs

    A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers program to improve salmon habitat by placing spawning gravel in the Yuba River is working, say researchers evaluating the program.