Supervisors agree to Montara flood control projects

The Board of Supervisors has ordered three critical flood control projects for Montara. All costs of design and construction will be paid by the County using the mitigation fees they have been collecting since 1990, and there will be no cost to the community.

At their January 10, 2006 meeting, the supervisors authorized the Department of Public works to move forward with construction of drainage improvements at:

• Etheldore Street and Sunshine Valley Road
• Cypress Avenue from Etheldore Street to Highway 1
• Cedar Street between George Street and Montara Creek

The supervisors found that the construction  "is allowed by the MidCoast Community Plan as said drainage improvements will meet the goal of the Midcoast Community Plan to ‘preserve and enhance the visual qualities of the coastal community which gives it a unique character and distinguishes it from other places,’ by minimizing the damage that happens each time flooding occurs in these areas."

Montarans United Against Flooding organizer Steve Lowens has promised to keep working the the Midcoast Community Council to develop a framework to prevent these problems from recurring, and monitor the DPW to make sure the projects really happen.