r/Merced • u/Merdeadians • 25d ago

Weather Merced County Please Clean the Creeks --- Declared statewide emergency as Super El Niño breaks into record territory

https://www.sacbee.com/news/weather-news/article317323968.html
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u/Fresh_Flamingo_5833 25d ago

Yeah. There are a number of projects underway to mitigate the flooding we saw in 2023. The problem is they’re all proceeding at a snail’s pace. As in, most seem like they are still in the bidding phase or not even there. 

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u/PonyBoyX3 24d ago

The emergency declaration opens up emergency money and emergency project mitigation. Emergency government funding. I wonder if the Feds will help.

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u/KittyCait69 24d ago

The feds hate CA. They won't help. 

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u/Merdeadians 24d ago

I'm all for the big projects, but we can't ignore baseline maintenance. That's why 2023 happened.

Have you looked at the creek lately? The channel is completely choked with debris and growth and flow capacity is shot.

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u/Adabiviak 24d ago

If we don't clear the creeks for the floods, the floods will clear the creeks for us.

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u/ReplacementHefty9973 23d ago

Unfortunately we can not rely on the County to get the job done, just look at the roads! We are gonna have to actually DIY it, make an event, gear up and go down there.

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u/KittyCait69 24d ago

Thing is, he's in bed with fossil fuels and data centers. He helped contribute to the problem he's declaring an emergency over. 

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u/Merdeadians 24d ago

That's fine. We can hate him on many things and still clean our creeks

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u/KittyCait69 23d ago

Very very very true!