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Legal action could stall Natomas levee repairs

Posted by: Maven on March 9, 2009 at 5:16 am

From the Sacramento Bee:

Levee repairs in Sacramento’s Natomas Basin face new legal and financial threats that could delay construction of the massive project. The Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency is just weeks from awarding a $90 million construction contract for a key phase of the project. But that work depends on state matching funds, which have been bottled up by the state budget crisis.

And last week, the Garden Highway Community Association filed two new legal actions against the project.

One is a lawsuit in Sacramento Superior Court against SAFCA. It claims the agency failed to fully analyze environmental damages caused by the first phase of construction along the Sacramento River. Recent changes to these plans, contained in a supplemental environmental impact report approved in January, involve a wider seepage berm in one area that critics say could eliminate more habitat than originally expected.

The second action is a notice of intent to sue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, filed in federal court. The community group claims the corps analysis of environmental harm caused by the levee project is inadequate.

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March 9, 2009 · Filed Under Levees, Sacramento

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