Residents who live in a number of evacuation zones toward the county’s northern areas have been cleared to return, including in the former sugar town of Spreckels, south of Highway 68.
With meteorologists expecting low weekend rain totals ahead of a wetter weather system on Monday, county officials said flood levels at the Salinas River were actively receding.
Still, about a 200-mile stretch of Highway 1 — much of it along the Big Sur coast, a road-trip favorite among tourists — remains closed, from the historic Deetjen’s Inn to Ragged Point in San Luis Obispo County. Portions of the highway are expected to remain shut down through the weekend. And meanwhile, a return home is yet to appear on the horizon for thousands of farmworkers in the Pajaro Valley, a three-square-mile community where last week a burst levee led to more than 800 homes being swamped by turbid floodwater.
Adrian Arias fills buckets of floodwater for toilet use at his home in Pajaro, Calif., on Thursday, March. 16, 2023. The floodwaters didn’t reach Arias’ home, he said. In addition to contaminated silt, mud and standing floodwater, the homes may also be subject to severe structural damage that would make it unsafe to re-enter, Monterey County Undersheriff Keith Boyd said earlier in the week.
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