and business is really slow because of the flood, so it has just been devastating," said owner Maria Colin through a translator. In March 2023, a levee holding back the Pajaro River burst ...

Pajaro, a community of 2,800 in Monterey County, is still recovering from a massive flood nearly 2 years later. On Thursday the USDA gave Monterey County $4 Million to help rebuild the community's ...

For some parts of Monterey County, new safeguards against flooding are especially urgent. In Pajaro, the community of largely lower-income earners still faces high flooding risk today, as residents ...

LAS LOMAS — The Pajaro River flood of 2023 brought many devastating impacts to the community of Pajaro, including residents being displaced for weeks, the closure of Pajaro Middle School’s ...

Flood damages during recent winters tested the County of Monterey’s financial safety nets. A levee breach severely disrupted life for the mostly low-income community of Pajaro, and the Salinas ...

In 2023, residents were forced to evacuate in the middle of the night after an atmospheric river surge broke the the Pajaro Levee in California, sending flood waters flowing into the community.

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A 2019 infrastructure report card gave the state’s levees a "D," citing that despite significant investments, much more work ...

“increased the flood risk of the communities that the Army Corps of Engineers is tasked with protecting.” As Pinter put it, “That risk never goes away.” California saw the consequences of that risk in ...