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    Before disastrous flood, officials knew Pajaro River levee could fail but took no action

    by Susanne Rust, Los Angeles Times Mar 12, 2023 3 minutes
    This aerial photograph shows cars and homes engulfed by floodwaters in Pajaro, California on Saturday, March 11, 2023.

    WATSONVILLE, Calif. — Officials have known for decades that the Pajaro River levee that failed this weekend — flooding an entire migrant town and trapping scores of residents — was vulnerable but never prioritized repairs in part because they believed it did not make financial sense to protect the low-income area, interviews and records show.

    “It was pretty much recognized by the early ‘60s that the levees were probably not adequate for the water that that system gets,” Edwin Townsley, U.S. Army Corps of Engineer’s Deputy District

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