Edhat Staff
Photos: Public Works
By edhat staff
The Santa Barbara County Public Works Department worked overnight to clear watershed below the Cave Fire burn areas.
Crews worked in the San Roque and San Antonio basins until the rain arrived.
Photo: Rick Tomasini/Flood Control Maintenance Manager
As of 7:00 a.m. Wednesday, Public Works reports the San Antonio Creek Basin below the Cave Fire burn area and above Tucker’s Grove remains clean. Public Works will monitor upcoming storms and will maintain the basins should there be any debris.
San Antonio Creek Basin (Photo: Public Works)
PIT, that doesn’t change the fact that the funds aren’t there to do all the maintenance projects that get deferred. If it was fully funded the maintenance needs would be met. It’s quite simple in spite of how you spin it to defend decades of tax cuts that don’t seem to help anyone except those that least need the help.
OCEANDREW Local governments have their priorities: PENSIONS.
I guess they don’t have a maintenance schedule to do this on a regular basis? I hope they are not needed and the rains stay light.
You’ve heard of the deferred maintenance backlog haven’t you? It’s the result of forcing local govts to do more with less.
Ocean, after the Montecito fiasco you’d think that cleaning out the debris basins would be a high priority task. If not, who is setting their priorities, the cannabis growers? My understanding is that LA cleans out their basins every year, they don’t wait until a fire occurs and do it the night before the storm hits.