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The Pajaro River Task Force, a sub-committee of Action Pajaro Valley, developed this website as an educational resource for the community. It's your central source for information about the lower Pajaro River flood protection project. This website also provides watershed-wide links and helpful resources.
The Task Force is facilitating a collaborative planning process to develop community-wide consensus on flood protection projects on the lower Pajaro River. The Counties of Santa Cruz and Monterey and the City of Watsonville, as well as many community and agricultural organizations, are all working together. Check back here for planning and meeting updates, and sign up to join the effort!
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What's the Status of the Lower Pajaro Levee Reconstruction Project?
The local project sponsors of the Counties of Santa Cruz and Monterey together with the City of Watsonville have jointly provided $600,000 and necessary staff resources to help the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' evaluate the final alternatives and produce a Draft Project EIR/EIS for public distribution.Learn more...
APV Awarded Large Grant for Levee Project Consensus Building and Coordination
This $559,217 Proposition 50 grant allows Action Pajaro Valley (APV) to continue its work coordinating outreach and stakeholder involvement toward consensus and agreement on the Lower Pajaro Flood Project. The work plan includes analysis of the local financing plan and project governance structure.
Federal Officials Visit Levee Project Site
Brigadier General John McMahon, Commander of the South Pacific Division, toured the Pajaro River project area to gather a firsthand account of those locations protected by USACE levees, and to gain a better understanding of the areas that will be affected by project construction.Learn more...
Message from Congressman Sam Farr
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Representative Sam Farr has secured $4.53 million to fund water projects in the Central Coast. The funds are included in the House Appropriations bill on Energy and Water Development.
$1 million of this funding is to continue planning and design for the flood control project on the Pajaro River in Watsonville, where floods in 1995 caused more than $50 million in damage, with additional damage in 1997 and 1998.
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