A new flood control agency for California’s Butte and Sutter counties will start considering levee rebuilding and repairs that could cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
The Sutter-Butte Flood Control Agency will compete for state grants to improve levees to boost protection to 100-year levels.
Much of Sutter County remains part of a special federal flood hazard insurance zone, despite $55 million spent to improve Feather River levees in the past decade. Some estimates say it could take $375 million to bolster other levees in the Yuba City Basin.
The new agency will meet for the first time this week, when it is expected to appoint Bill Edgar, a former director of the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency, as its interim executive director.
Topics California Flood
Was this article valuable?
Here are more articles you may enjoy.
Hedge Funds Are Expanding Desks Designed to Profit From Natural-Catastrophe Risk 
D&O Market Expected to Tighten Under Pressure, Says AM Best 
DeSantis Plan to Cut Florida Property Taxes Heads to Ballot—With Schools Removed 
MMA Alleges Broker Patriot Poached 11 Surety Team Members 
