Funding Mechanism for Comprehensive Sacramento Area Flood Protection and Natomas Cross Canal South Levee Phase I Improvements Project

Funding Mechanism for Comprehensive Sacramento Area Flood Protection and Natomas Cross Canal South Levee Phase I Improvements Project

SAFCA is proposing to create a new funding mechanism that would provide the local share of the cost of comprehensive flood control improvements necessary to provide urban-standard flood protection (i.e., 200-year or greater level of flood protection, which means protection from a flood that has an annual risk of occurrence of 0.5% or less) for the Sacramento area. The funding mechanism would fund the completion of the previously approved projects and modifications to those projects as follows: - Improvements to Folsom Dam that would increase the dam's low-level discharge and flood control storage capacities (i.e., Folsom Dam raise, auxiliary spillway, and/or outlet modifications); - Construction of a new bridge across the American River downstream of the dam; - Improvements to the American and Sacramento River levee systems that would allow this system to safely contain sustained releases up to 160,000 cubic feet per second from Folsom Dam; - Improvements to the levees around the Natomas Basin, including erosion treatments, levee raising, and a combination of deep slurry walls, earthen berms, relief wells, and potentially a setback or backup levee on the Sacramento River east levee; - Improvements to the levees along Morrison Creek and its tributaries (i.e., the "South Sacramento Streams Group"); - Improvements to the levees along the Natomas East Main Drainage Canal (also called Steelhead Creek) and its tributaries; and - a long-term extraordinary maintenance program to address erosion in the Sacramento and American River channels and other extraordinary maintenance needs.

Sacramento

El Dorado, Placer, Sacramento, Sutter

California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Bay Delta Region 3 (CDFW), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, North Central Region 2 (CDFW), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Highway Patrol, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Sacramento Region 5 (RWQCB), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Caltrans, Division of Aeronautics, Central Valley Flood Protection Board, Department of Toxic Substances Control, Office of Emergency Services, California, Office of Historic Preservation, Resources Agency, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Rights, Department of Water Resources

Department of Water Resources

Other (Flood Control Improvements)

Funding Mechanism for Flood Control Projects

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Growth Inducement, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Noise, Public Services, Recreation, Solid Waste, Transportation, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildlife