Sen. Alex Padilla made a stop on the Pajaro River just outside Watsonville Wednesday to promote federal efforts to bring aid to the region following the floods that devastated the area in March.
Padilla hosted a press conference near the Thurwachter/McGowan Bridge in unincorporated Monterey County with federal officials, including Rep. Jimmy Panetta, who represents Monterey and Santa Cruz counties in Congress.
The modernization of the levee was one of many infrastructure projects to be funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill, which was signed into law by President Joe Biden in 2021. Panetta, Feinstein and Padilla included $149 million to rebuild the river’s aging levees, which have been an area of concern for decades and resulted in another major flood to the Pajaro Valley in 1995.
Padilla said he has pushed the Office of Management and Budget to go beyond the current cost-benefit ratio to ensure lower-income communities receive equitable funding.
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