Santa Cruz County supervisors approved two local emergency declarations Tuesday for the winter storms that have battered the county in December and January.
According to county officials, the storms have wrought upwards of $21 million in road damage, nearly $7 million in park damage and upwards of $1.2 million to the San Lorenzo Valley Water District's water distribution infrastructure.
A view of damage on the road after storm and heavy rain in the Santa Cruz Mountains above Silicon Valley in Scotts Valley, January 09, 2023."We've received over 23 inches of rain in the last 10 days," Reid said Tuesday before the county Board of Supervisors."In 2017, at that same rain gauge, we had over 50 inches of rain in six weeks. So this is unprecedented but not unfamiliar territory. And we're not out of the woods.
In Santa Cruz County, the heavy rain and high winds have led to significant flooding of the San Lorenzo River, Aptos Creek, Salsipuedes Creek and, for the first time in more than 40 years, the Soquel Creek. Most recently, the storm that hit the county on Sunday and Monday forced the evacuation of nearly 30,000 residents living near the Pajaro River flood basin, which was under a flash flood warning by the National Weather Service at the time.
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