In a letter dated Wednesday, the Board of Supervisors laid out their concerns that erosion on a levee near where Highway 1 crosses the Pajaro River and a break in the levee downstream from there are not being addressed with the urgency needed to protect people and property. The locations have been labeled Site 2 and Site 3.
The Monterey County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a long-term recovery plan for the North County community of Pajaro on Wednesday, Dec. 6, distributing $20 million in state funds.
When the California state budget allocated $20 million to the County of Monterey to use for recovery efforts in Pajaro following massive flooding in March, no strings attached, it was
All the repairs to the Pajaro River Levee were forecasted to be finished by the end of the year. The Army Corps of Engineers now projects completion by July 2024.
Red tape taking the funding months to get to this point. But on Wednesday, after hearing three compromising plans, the Monterey County Board of Supervisors approved a final plan for how the money will be spent.