“For Yuba City Councilwoman Karen Cartoscelli, the most important bond on the November ballot is Proposition 1E, a $4.1 billion bond measure that would help repair and reinforce Californias 6,000 miles of crumbling Central Valley levees.
Cartoscelli was Yuba City’s mayor in 1997, when harsh winter storms drove the Feather River to dangerous heights, forcing the evacuation of 50,000 residents of the Sutter County city and Marysville (Yuba County) on the other side of the river.
Yuba City, which was inundated in a 1955 flood, escaped harm in 1997, but a levee break flooded towns on the other side of the Feather.”
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