Skelton: California needs to catch up on flood management
California has added little to its once-prized water system since 1960, and the population has more than doubled, columnist George Skelton writes.
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California has added little to its once-prized water system since 1960, and the population has more than doubled, columnist George Skelton writes.
Experts say it’s ‘only a matter of time’ until the iconic glaciers surrounding Revelstoke melt away
Heavy storms have flooded parts of California, but the state has been unable to capture billions of gallons of water that are flowing unchecked into the ocean. Los Angeles is embarking on an ambitious new program to change that.
A woman was killed in Sacramento Saturday evening after being hit by a falling tree, officials said. A wind advisory is in effect for through Sunday afternoon as a new storm system rolls into the region.
The Sacramento region avoided widespread outages and flooding overnight into Thursday, though wet weather will remain in the forecast this weekend, meteorologists say. That could make flooding a concern over the next week.