[AT] Farm flooding update California - new info

Mike M meulenms at gmx.com
Sat Feb 4 11:22:47 PST 2017


That's a good idea Steve, wonder if there is a way for Grant to "find" 
his dirt and put it back.  Many times talking to the crews doing the 
work is much more effective than asking city hall.

Mike M


On 2/4/2017 2:08 PM, Steve W. wrote:
> Grant Brians wrote:
>> Well, here is the updated info on our flooding here. I don't usually
>> post when I am sad, but this morning I am. Yesterday I was able to
>> finally look at just how bad the flood damage was to our farm from the
>> Pacheco Creek flooding. We have a 6 foot deep gully that is up to 30
>> feet wide through two of our most productive fields! In addition the
>> remainder of one of those two is covered with a layer of rocks from the
>> flood. I am just trying to figure out whether there is some way to fix
>> this economically. We shall see. Over 40 acres of land damaged there in
>> those two fields. I was taking video last night and can't post that, but
>> I am attaching a picture that shows where they are on the edge of the
>> open water where one creek heads into the lake. Every part of this
>> picture with water except for the creek beds is normally fields,
>> pastures and homes....
>>                 Grant Brians - Hollister,California farmer of vegetables
>> (and floods?)
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> Sounds like the damage that happened to the neighbors field when it
> flooded because of neglect on the part of the state. You may want to
> talk to any of the crews that are doing repairs to things like roads,
> bridges and such. The farm up the road had his fields all restored as
> part of the repair process. They even added some "extra" land when they
> moved the creek back into the original channel from the 60's.
>
> Didn't cost him directly at the time out of pocket as the repairs came
> out of the state funding. So he got a lot of his own money back.
>
>


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