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File ID: 2022-01719 10/11/2022 Consent Item 8.
Accepting Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency’s 2022 Urban Level of Flood Protection (ULOP) Adequate Progress Annual Report
File ID: 2022-01719
Location: Citywide
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution accepting Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency’s 2022 Urban Level of Flood Protection Adequate Progress Annual Report.
Contact: Remi Mendoza, Senior Planner, (916) 808-5003; Amy Yang, Associate Planner, (916) 808- 5023; Matt Hertel, Long Range Planning Manager, (916) 808-7158, Community Development Department; Rosa Millino, Senior Engineer, (916) 808-1451; Neal Joyce, Supervising Engineer, (916) 808-1461, Department of Utilities
Presenter: None
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Resolution
3-Exhibit A-SAFCA 2022 ULOP Adequate Progress Annual Report 4-Transmittal Cover Letter from SAFCA’s Board
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: On June 21, 2016, the City Council passed a resolution accepting the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency’s (SAFCA) Urban Level of Flood Protection (ULOP) Plan, prepared pursuant to Senate Bill 5 (SB 5) and related legislation. The ULOP Plan identifies flood improvement projects, cost estimates, anticipated funding sources, and a schedule to complete them by 2025, which would result in 200-year flood protection for the city.
When considering development within a flood hazard zone, the City has relied on the 2016 ULOP Plan and the subsequent 2017 through 2021 ULOP annual reports as substantial pieces of evidence that SAFCA has made adequate progress on the construction of a 200-year flood protection system.
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necessary to support the “adequate progress finding” in the approval of new development within a flood hazard zone. Attached is SAFCA’s sixth annual report, the 2022 ULOP Adequate Progress Annual Report intended to serve that purpose (Attachment 3). The annual report concludes that SAFCA is meeting State standards for adequate progress on achieving a 200-year urban level of flood protection. Staff recommends that Council adopt a resolution accepting the SAFCA 2022 ULOP Adequate Progress Annual Report.
Policy Considerations: The 2035 General Plan includes the following goals and policies related to flood protection:
GOAL Environmental Constraints (EC) 2.1 Protect life and property from flooding.
EC 2.1.4 200-Year Flood Protection. The City shall work with local, regional, state, and federal agencies to achieve at least 200-year flood protection for all areas of the City by 2025.
EC 2.1.5 Funding for 200-year Flood Protection. The City shall continue to cooperate with local, regional, State, and Federal agencies in securing funding to obtain the maximum level of flood protection that is practical, with a minimum goal of achieving at least 200-year flood protection as quickly as possible.
Economic Impacts: Not applicable.
Environmental Considerations:
California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA): Policies to achieve a 200-year level of flood protection were included in the 2035 General Plan and evaluated in the certified Master Environmental Impact Report. Acceptance of the SAFCA 2022 ULOP Adequate Progress Annual Report will enable the City to use this document for future flood-related findings in compliance with state law. Acceptance of this document constitutes an administrative action that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment, and the action is not a project that requires environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). See CEQA Guidelines section 15378(b)(5); 15060(c)(3).
Sustainability: The proposed resolution will reduce flood risk by strengthening the linkage between local land use planning decisions and flood management practices. This resolution would also support the City’s efforts to promote urban infill and redevelopment.
Commission/Committee Action: None.
Rationale for Recommendation: Approval of this resolution will achieve compliance with state law (SB 5 and subsequent amendments) thereby allowing the City to make the required findings related City of Sacramento Page 2 of 6
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to flood protection for approval of developments projects.
Financial Considerations: Not applicable.
Local Business Enterprise (LBE): Not applicable.
Background In 2007, the California Legislature enacted SB 5 and other interrelated bills in effort to strengthen the link between flood management and local land use planning decisions. Per the new state law, effective on July 1, 2016, cities and counties within the Central Valley have been required to make one of the following findings before approving development agreements, tentative maps, discretionary permits, and ministerial permits for new residences:
1. The existing flood management facilities protect the property to an urban level of flood prote ction, or
2. The city has imposed conditions that will protect the property to an urban level of flood protection, or
3. The local flood management agency has made adequate progress on the construction of a flood protection system to provide an urban level of flood protection by 2025, or
4. The property is in an undetermined risk area.
In most cases the ULOP is defined as protection against a 200-year flood. In the Sacramento region, major improvements to levee systems are ongoing which will provide 200-year flood protection by 2025. In 2016 the City’s Local Flood Management Agency-SAFCA-prepared an ULOP Plan which has aided the City in making the “adequate progress finding” (No. 3 above). SAFCA’s ULOP plan highlights key planned improvements that will provide Sacramento with a 200-year level of flood protection, their costs, revenues to fund them, and a schedule to complete them by 2025. On June 27, 2016, the City Council accepted SAFCA’s ULOP plan (Resolution No. 2016-0226).
In order for the City to continue to rely on making the “adequate progress finding”, the California Government Code § 65007(a)(5) further requires the City to annually report to the Central Valley Flood Protection Board on its efforts in working towards completion of the 200-year flood protection system. Accordingly, SAFCA staff and consultants have prepared the 2022 ULOP: Adequate Progress Annual Report for the City to fulfill Government code requirements which document the following:
· The total project scope, schedule, and cost of the flood protection system have been developed to meet 200-year flood protection.
· That 90% of the required revenues scheduled to be received by that year have been appropriated and is being expended;
· Critical features of the Flood Protection System are under construction and progressing based upon the actual expenditures of the construction budget; and · The City has not been responsible for a significant delay in the completion of the system.
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In summary the 2022 ULOP adequate progress annual report demonstrates that:
· Over 100% of the revenue scheduled to be received has been appropriated and are currently being expended;
· Critical features of the flood protection system are under construction and progressing based upon the actual expenditures of the construction budget in that:
All Protected Areas - All of the SAFCA protected basins benefit from the Folsom Dam Modifications. The first element of the modifications, the JFP, was largely completed in 2016.
In 2017 the completed project was turned over to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. On June 12, 2019 the Water Control Manual was formally executed. The Folsom Dam Raise construction contract for Dike 8 was awarded in 2019 and construction was completed in 2020. Design work for Dikes 1-6, the main dam, and wing dams is nearly complete; and SAFCA is currently relocating utilities located in the construction footprints for the dikes.
Design is underway for Dike 7 and the Mormon Island Auxiliary Dam. The draft final Emergency Spillway Release Diagram has been reviewed and will be used to develop hydrologic loading curves for use in the dam safety risk analysis and final designs.
The Sacramento Weir widening entered the 100 percent design review in February (USACE, 2022a). Weir widening is being integrated with the State of California Lower Elkhorn Basin Levee Setback (LEBLS) project. LEBLS is under construction. SAFCA has relocated the Bryte Landfill to make way for the levee setback, and half of the levee embankment material has been placed for the north levee of the Sacramento River Bypass. Interior drainage and pump station improvements are underway. DWR began work on moving back the east levee of the Yolo Bypass in 2020
Natomas - SAFCA has largely completed its Natomas Levee Improvement Program (NLIP), which improved levees on the north and part of the west perimeter of the basin. The ARCF 2014 Natomas Basin Project is improving the basin’s remaining levees and drainage infrastructure, which are referred to in sequential reaches starting with Reach A from the American River confluence to San Juan Road and moving around the basin in a clockwise direction (USACE, 2022b). Levee construction is beginning in Reach A on the SREL. USACE Reach B (along the SREL north of San Juan Road) construction is underway, including 4.3 miles of seepage cutoff wall, installation of seepage berms, and flattening landside slopes of some levees. Construction at Pumping Plant 3 in this reach is complete. No construction is currently occurring in Reach C. Levee construction in Reach D (Natomas Cross Canal South Levee) is complete except at Highway 99. Work continues at Pumping Plant 4. Improvements to Reach E (Pleasant Grove Creek Canal West Levee) and F and G (Natomas East Main Drainage Canal West Levee) are currently being designed. Seepage cutoff wells, levee slope flattening, and improvements to two stormwater pumping stations are under construction on USACE Reach H (along the NEMDC West Levee from Dry Creek to Northgate Boulevard).
Reach I (American River North Levee west of Northgate Boulevard) included a blanket drain constructed under the I-5 overpass and a cutoff wall to the west along the Garden Highway.
Both are now complete. Natomas benefits from the Folsom Dam Modifications discussed City of Sacramento Page 4 of 6
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above.
Dry Creek North Levee System - No construction projects are required for the Dry Creek North Levee.
Robla Creek to Arcade Creek - In 2017, 14 relief wells were constructed along the Arcade Creek North Levee. Construction of cutoff walls under SAFCA construction contract 4355 is now substantially complete.
American River North Levee - Cutoff walls were constructed along the Arcade Creek South Levee and NEMDC East Levee and were completed by USACE in 2015. Erosion protection is being implemented by USACE and should be complete by 2025 (USACE, 2022a). Contract 2 on the right bank of the American River near H Street Bridge has been awarded. Contract 4A on the right bank near State Route 160 is planned to be through design by 2023.
American River South and Sacramento River East Levee
- Structural improvements to the
Sacramento River East Levee have been designed, and USACE has retained a construction contractor. Contract 1 included work in the Pocket area and a seepage berm near Front Street and Miller Park that is now complete (USACE, 2022a). The second contract along the Sacramento River East Levee in the Pocket area, includes cutoff wall construction, now complete, and relief wells to address seepage and stability issues. Construction is underway on Contract 3 this year. Final design is nearing completion for the fourth and final contract to conclude the SREL structural improvements in 2024.
Work is also planned north of Miller Park near U.S. 50. Encroachments in the construction footprint were removed by SAFCA. Under its “levee modernization” project, SAFCA acquired a property adjoining the levee and removed encroachments on it preparatory to splitting the property under the flood easement and conveying fee title to the State or City. A voluntary encroachment removal program has been initiated for other affected properties. Additional structural improvements recommended as a result of evaluations in 2018 included improvements to the Beach Lake Levee and the Sacramento River East Levee downstream of the Beach Lake Levee (MBK, 2018), and 35% design is underway. In 2019, SAFCA also constructed an oak woodland mitigation project to provide a wind-wave buffer for the levee.
Erosion protection is being constructed by USACE under their WRDA 2016 authorization.
Erosion repair contracts for SREL Contract C1 on the north end of the Little Pocket on the Sacramento River has been awarded for construction beginning this year (USACE, 2022a).
Design is underway for SREL contracts C2, C3, and C4. American River Contract 1 on the left bank near H Street Bridge is in construction, and American River Contract 3A on the left bank near Interstate 80 Business has 95% design underway.
South Sacramento Streams Group
-Upstream of the UPRR, construction is complete on the
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Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) issued a LOMR for that work that became effective on March 25, 2019. The City or County may choose to investigate whether some areas where 200-year flood depths are below 3 feet may be newly eligible for a ULOP finding based on 100- year protection.
· The City of Sacramento has not been responsible for a significant delay in the completion of the flood protection system.
The annual report shows that SAFCA is meeting State standards for adequate progress on achieving the 200-year Urban Level of Flood Protection (ULOP). On July 21, 2022, this report was reviewed and approved by the SAFCA Board for distribution to and use by local agencies.
Staff recommends the Council pass a resolution accepting SAFCA’s 2022 ULOP Adequate Progress Annual Report. When considering development within a flood hazard zone, the City will rely on SAFCA’s 2016 ULOP Plan and the most recent 2022 annual report as important pieces of substantial evidence in making the “adequate progress finding”.
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RESOLUTION NO. 2022-
Adopted by the Sacramento City Council
Date Adopted
ACCEPTING THE SACRAMENTO AREA FLOOD CONTROL AGENCY 2022 URBAN LEVEL OF FLOOD
PROTECTION ADEQUATE PROGRESS ANNUAL REPORT
BACKGROUND
A. The Central Valley Flood Protection Act of 2008 (the “Act”) prohibits cities and counties, beginning July 1, 2016, from entering into development agreements, approving discretionary permits or ministerial permits that would result in the construction of a new residence, or approving tentative or parcel maps for areas located within a flood hazard zone unless the city or county makes one of the findings set forth in the legislation. (See Government Code sections 65865.5, 65962, and 66474.5.)
B. On March 1, 2016, the city council adopted Ordinance No. 2016-0012, which makes various changes to the city code to conform to the Act.
C. One of the Act’s required findings—the “adequate-progress finding”—allows development to proceed within a flood hazard zone if the city or county finds the local flood management agency has made adequate progress (as defined in Government Code section 65007) on the construction of a flood protection system that will result in flood protection equal to or greater than the urban level of flood protection (“ULOP”) in urban or urbanizing areas or the national Federal Emergency Management Agency (“FEMA”) standard of flood protection in nonurbanized areas intended to be protected by the system.
D. The California Department of Water Resources has declared that the adequate-progress finding must be based on the following: a report prepared by the applicable local flood management agency demonstrating adequate progress; a report prepared by a professional civil engineer that documents the data and analysis for demonstrating the property, development project, or subdivision will have an urban level of flood protection at the time when the flood protection system is completed; a report by an independent panel of experts on the review of the report prepared by the professional civil engineer; a response by the professional civil engineer to the comments from the independent panel of experts; the most recent annual report prepared by local flood management agency that was submitted to the Central Valley Protection Board documenting the efforts in working toward completion of the flood protection system; and any additional data and information that cities or counties use to make the finding. (See California Department of Water Resources, Urban Level of Flood Protection Criteria, page 2-10.)
E. In 2016, consistent with these mandates, the City of Sacramento’s (City) local flood management agency—the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency (SAFCA)—prepared documents to support the adequate-progress. On June 21, 2016, the City Council adopted
Resolution No. 2016-0226 accepting SAFCA’s urban level of flood protection plan and adequate progress baseline report and adequate progress towards an urban level of flood protection engineer’s report.
F. On November 7, 2017, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 2017-0418 accepting SAFCA’s ULOP Adequate Progress Annual Report.
G. On November 20, 2018, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 2018-0445 accepting SAFCA’s ULOP Adequate Progress Annual Report.
H. On October 22, 2019, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 2019-0398 accepting SAFCA’s ULOP Adequate Progress Annual Report.
I. On October 13, 2020, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 2020-0326 accepting SAFCA’s ULOP Adequate Progress Annual Report.
J. On November 9, 2021, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 2021-0328 accepting SAFCAs ULOP Adequate Progress Annual Report
K. In 2022, SAFCA has prepared the following to support the adequate-progress finding: the Urban Level of Flood Protection Adequate Progress Annual Report. This document concludes that the levees that protect much of the City do not currently meet ULOP requirements, but SAFCA is meeting the State standards in demonstrating adequate progress towards achieving ULOP in urban or urbanizing areas or the national Federal Emergency Management Agency standard of flood protection in nonurbanized areas for property located within a flood hazard zone, intended to be protected by the system, by 2025.
L. On July 21, 2022, the SAFCA Board of Directors approved the ULOP Adequate Progress Annual Report for distribution to and use by the City and other agencies.
M. The 2022 ULOP Adequate Progress Annual Report is an informational document that describes actions already being undertaken or planned by SAFCA and is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The environmental effects of the projects have been addressed at a program level by the 2016 Updated Local Funding Mechanisms for Sacramento Area Flood Control Improvements Subsequent Environmental Impact Report (EIR) and the underlying 2007 Program EIR. Policies to achieve a 200-year level of flood protection were included in the 2035 General Plan and evaluated in the certified Master Environmental Impact Report. The City’s acceptance of the SAFCA 2022 Urban Level of Flood Protection Adequate Progress Annual Report will enable the City to use that document and the ULOP and Engineer’s Report for flood related findings in compliance with State law. Acceptance of these documents constitutes an administrative action that will not result in direct or indirect physical changes in the environment, and the action is not a project that requires environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). See CEQA Guidelines sections 15378(b)(5) and 15060(c)(3). The need for additional CEQA compliance for individual projects will need to be considered at the time those projects are advanced.
BASED ON THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE BACKGROUND, THE CITY COUNCIL RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The city council accepts SAFCA’s 2022 ULOP Adequate Progress Annual Report, attached as Exhibit A and by this reference made a part of this resolution
Section 2. When considering development within a flood hazard zone, the City may rely on the 2022 ULOP Adequate Progress Annual Report, the ULOP and the Engineer’s report referenced in Resolution No. 2016-0226, as substantial evidence that SAFCA has made adequate progress (as defined in Government Code section 65007) on the construction of a flood protection system that will result in flood protection equal to or greater than the urban level of flood protection in urban or urbanizing areas or the national Federal Emergency Management Agency standard of flood protection in nonurbanized areas for property located within a flood hazard zone, intended to be protected by the system.
Table of Contents:
Exhibit A – SAFCA’s 2022 ULOP Adequate Progress Annual Report
2022
Urban Level of Flood Protection
Annual Report
Final
August 2022
1325 J Street Suite 1540
Sacramento, CA 95814
(916) 874-7606
2022 Urban Level of Flood Protection Annual Report 1
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Introduction ............................................................................................................................. 2
2. Planned scope, Schedule, and Cost ......................................................................................... 2
2.1 Project Scope .................................................................................................................... 3
2.2 Schedule ........................................................................................................................... 6
2.3 Costs, Revenues, and Appropriations ................................................................................ 9
3. Construction of Critical Features ........................................................................................... 10
4. Delays .................................................................................................................................... 13
5. References for Data Used ...................................................................................................... 13
FIGURES
Figure 1: SAFCA Projects .............................................................................................................. 4
TABLES
Table 1: Timeline for Projects ........................................................................................................ 7
Table 2: ARCF Natomas Basin Project Status Detail ..................................................................... 8 Table 3: ARCF 2016 Project Status Detail ..................................................................................... 9 Table 4: Planned Expenditures ..................................................................................................... 10 Table 5: Cumulative Planned Expenditures, Actual Appropriations and Actual Expenditures Through 2021-2022 ...................................................................................................................... 11
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1. INTRODUCTION
California Government Code (CGC) Section 65007(a)(5) requires local agencies to “annually report to the Central Valley Flood Protection Board on the efforts in working toward completion of the flood protection system.” State requirements are further described in the Urban Level of Flood Protection Criteria (ULOP Criteria; DWR, 2013).
This report describes Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency (SAFCA)’s efforts in improving the regional flood protection system over the fiscal year ending on June 30, 2022. Section 5 of the SAFCA Final Urban Level of Flood Protection Plan and Adequate Progress Baseline Report (ULOP Plan) noted that the majority of funding for SAFCA’s projects comes from State and Federal agencies over which SAFCA has no control (SAFCA, 2016).
This annual report only addresses the State Plan of Flood Control (SPFC) facilities. The local land use agencies, acting as floodplain managers, must consider this plan along with their own data to determine whether residual risks, including interior drainage and flood sources not managed by SPFC facilities, affect development projects to such a degree that the projects would be subject to flood protection findings under state law. If a land use agency is required to make a flood protection finding, the finding must be selected from one of those summarized below:
(1) Existing facilities provide ULOP in urban areas or meet the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) standard in nonurbanized areas;
(2) Conditions on the project will protect it to the applicable standard;
(3) The local flood management agency has made adequate progress on a flood system providing the applicable level of protection. For urban and urbanizing areas protected by project levees, ULOP will be achieved by 2025; or
(4) The property in an undetermined risk area has met ULOP based on substantial evidence in the record.
Areas dependent of flood risk reduction projects that are still under construction typically rely on the third finding listed above. In the event that ULOP has not been or cannot be achieved by 2025 under one of the possible findings, the local agency may not approve the affected land use decision. This report is not intended to be a substitute for the independent judgment of the local agencies in adopting their findings.
2. PLANNED SCOPE, SCHEDULE, AND COST
CGC Section 65007(a)(1) requires the local flood management agency to report “the total project scope, schedule, and cost” of meeting ULOP with the agency’s flood protection system. This information was detailed in the ULOP Plan and is summarized here.
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2.1 Project Scope
The following projects, illustrated in Figure 1, will help attain the Urban Level of Flood Protection in SAFCA’s protected areas.
Folsom Dam Modifications – Folsom Dam Modifications include three related projects: the Folsom Joint Federal Project (JFP), the Folsom Dam Raise, and the Folsom Dam Water Control Manual Update.
The JFP is a joint project of the US Bureau of Reclamation, US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), DWR, and SAFCA. The JFP created a new, gated auxiliary spillway on the east abutment of the dam, enabling the dam to be operated to accommodate a 200-year flood and changing the design flow of the river to 160,000 cubic feet per second (cfs). Currently, with the adoption of the updated water control manual, the 200-year discharge from Folsom Dam is approximately 120,000 cfs.
The Folsom Dam Raise will raise the height of the structures comprising Folsom Dam, including the main dam, wing dams, and dikes that contain Folsom Reservoir. Congress has authorized raising the height of the wing dams and dikes by 3.5 feet. This will allow flood operators to store more flood water when forecasted inflows are decreasing (resulting in no imminent threat to the dam) and the additional storage is required to maintain releases from the dam at a level that can be safely contained by the downstream levee system. The project includes improving the flood gates on the main dam (USACE, 2017).
The completed Folsom Dam Water Control Manual Update optimizes operations at the dam with the JFP improvements. Once the Folsom Dam Raise is completed, the manual will be adjusted again to reflect the increased reservoir storage capacity created by that project. With the raise, studies indicate that in a 200-year flood, discharges into the American River will not exceed 115,000 cfs.
American River Common Features (ARCF) 2014 Natomas Basin Project (formerly called the Natomas Basin USACE Project) – The Natomas levees are being improved in two phases.
Physical construction of the Natomas Levee Improvement Program (NLIP) Local Project, led by SAFCA, is complete and comprised eighteen miles of improvements to the Natomas Cross Canal and the Sacramento River East Levee. The ARCF 2014 Natomas Basin Project consists of levee improvements around the remainder of the 42-mile Natomas Basin perimeter. The USACE is planning and implementing the remaining elements (USACE, 2015):
• American River North Levee adjacent to Natomas Basin – widen 2 miles of levee in place and install a seepage cutoff wall through the levee and foundation. • Sacramento River East Levee adjacent to Natomas Basin – construct 5 miles of adjacent levee, 3.3 miles of deep seepage cutoff walls, and 4.3 miles of seepage berms • Pleasant Grove Creek Canal adjacent to Natomas Basin - Widen 3.3 miles of levee in place and install a soil bentonite cutoff wall on the Pleasant Grove Creek Canal West Levee.
• Natomas East Main Drainage Canal (NEMDC)/Steelhead Creek West Levee – widen
12.8 miles of existing levee and install 10.7 miles of cutoff wall.
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Figure 1: SAFCA Projects
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• Natomas Cross Canal (NCC) South Levee – complete construction at gaps not remediated as part of NLIP at Bennett and Northern pumping plants and at the State Route 99 closure structure.
ARCF 2016 (formerly called American River Common Features General Reevaluation Report (GRR)) – The ARCF 2014 Natomas Basin Project described above was authorized prior to the ARCF GRR, which project was authorized by Congress in the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) 2016. ARCF 2016 features include additional bank protection along the American and Sacramento rivers, levee height and seepage improvements along Arcade Creek, levee improvements on the Magpie Creek Diversion Channel, and changes to the Sacramento Weir and Bypass. On the Sacramento River East Levee downstream of the American River, ARCF 2016 is improving deficient sites with features like the following:
• Slurry cutoff walls to address levee seepage and stability • Rock bank protection to address erosion
• Geotextile slope stabilization to address levee stability • Slope flattening to address levee stability
• Levee raise to address freeboard
Bank protection along the American River consists of rock revetment with planting berms where feasible. In some cases “launchable rock” trenches, when undermined by erosion, are designed to release rocks onto the erosion surface.
Sacramento River Bank Protection Project (SRBPP) – The SRBPP is an ongoing project to provide bank protection along critically eroding reaches of the Sacramento River flood control system, including tributaries like the American River. The SRBPP could accomplish a portion of the bank protection that otherwise would be done through ARCF 2016.
Levee Accreditation Project (LAP) – The LAP is a locally-led construction project that advanced portions of the ARCF 2016 prior to congressional authorization and funding. The LAP includes slurry cutoff walls along the Arcade Creek North Levee, the NEMDC East Levee, and the Arcade Creek South Levee (AECOM, 2015). SAFCA also began design along the Sacramento River East Levee (SREL) downstream of the American River. SAFCA’s design project included stability berms, relief wells, relief well improvements, cutoff walls, and toe drains. The project also included erosion repairs. The USACE took over design efforts along the Sacramento River in 2018 and is leading construction. Structures and vegetation encroaching on the levees will be removed if necessary to meet NFIP standards and the State’s ULDC.
The southernmost reach of the SREL at its junction with the Beach Lake Levee was evaluated in 2018 (MBK, 2018). MBK recommended improving the Beach Lake Levee and the Sacramento River East Levee downstream of the Beach Lake Levee. The recommendations included raising the Beach Lake Levee to meet ULDC requirements, possibly in conjunction with a riparian wind-wave buffer and DWR improvements to the levees of the McCormack-Williamson Tract.
These improvements can provide ULOP by 2025. SAFCA has proceeded with the wind-wave buffer and is designing potential levee improvements consistent with ULDC.
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South Sacramento County Streams Group (SSSG) Project – USACE was the lead agency on this completed project, which consisted of improvements to levees and channels along Morrison Creek and its tributaries in South Sacramento, including Florin Creek, Elder Creek, and Unionhouse Creek. Physical work is now complete.
Florin Creek Multi-Use Basin Project – In moderate and larger flood events, the completed Florin Creek Multi-Use Basin Project can store up to 30 acre-feet of Florin Creek flows at Florin Creek Park on the north bank of Florin Creek (ESA, 2014). It provides at least 100-year flood protection within its floodplain in conjunction with the Florin Creek capacity improvements constructed by USACE as part of the South Sacramento County Streams Group Project.
Non-Structural Actions – The state’s Urban Levee Design Criteria (ULDC) (DWR, 2012) are incorporated by reference in the ULOP Criteria and require many actions that are good practices for the effective operation and maintenance of levee systems to sustain system performance.
These actions include such measures as engineering evaluation and documentation, development of security and safety plans, and other items. The non-structural actions and their necessity are described in greater detail in the Adequate Progress Engineer’s Report (MBK, 2016). Ongoing operation, maintenance, repair, and rehabilitation may be considered ongoing non-structural actions that to the extent required are funded by SAFCA and its land use agency and local maintaining agency partners. Progress on these actions is not reported here unless they are “critical features” under the meaning of CGC Section 65007(a)(3).
2.2 Schedule
The Urban Level of Flood Protection must be achieved by the year 2025 in order for land use agencies, in approving new development, to make a finding that adequate progress is being made on the construction of a flood protection system (CGC §65865.5, §65962, and §66474.5). Table 1 on the next page, from the ULOP Plan, lists the schedule for SAFCA projects. Table 2 provides additional detail on the ARCF 2014 Natomas Basin Project and Table 3 provides additional detail on the ARCF 2016 Project.
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Table 1: Timeline for Projects
Project
Natomas
Levee
System
Dry
Creek
Levee
System
Robla
Creek –
Arcade
Creek
Levee
System
American
River
North
Levee
System
American
River
South and
Sacrament
o River
East Levee
System
South
Sacramento
Streams
Levee
System
Construction
Status
Folsom Dam
Modifications
Required
for ULOP
Not
required
Required
for ULOP
Required
for ULOP
Required
for ULOP
Required for
ULOP
Complete by
2025
ARCF 2014
Natomas
Basin Project
Required
for ULOP
Not
required
Not
required
Not
required
Not
required
Not required See detail in
Table 2
NLIP Local
Project
Required
for ULOP
Not
required
Not
required
Not
required
Not
required
Not required 2016
ARCF 2016
(elements
required for
200-year
protection)
Provides
resiliency
(lowers
water
surface)
Not
required
Provides
resiliency
Some
elements
required
for ULOP
Some
elements
required for
ULOP
Provides
resiliency
See detail in
Table 3
SRBPP As needed As
needed
As needed As needed As needed As needed As needed
LAP Not
required
Not
required
Required
for ULOP
Required
for ULOP
Not
required
Not required Complete by
2023
SSSG Not
required
Not
required
Not
required
Not
required
Not
required
Site
specific*
Complete
Florin Basin Not
required
Not
required
Not
required
Not
required
Not
required
Site
specific*
Complete
Additional
South
Sacramento
SPFC
Project(s) at
Beach Lake
Levee
Not
required
Not
required
Not
required
Not
required
Required
for ULOP
Not
Required
Under
evaluation
*This plan provides 200-year design flood risk reduction in the South Sacramento Streams area downstream of the Union Pacific Railroad (UPRR), subject to the evaluation of additional south Sacramento SPFC projects. Upstream of UPRR, the land use agency’s determination of whether ULOP is attained will depend on the specific site and development proposal as some areas of residual flooding over 3 feet deep remain. At some sites, the listed projects will help attain ULOP.
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Table 2: ARCF Natomas Basin Project Status Detail
Element
Status
ULOP
Attainment*
Reach A
Gateway Oaks Dr
to Farm Rd
Levee construction to begin Spring 2022.
Improvements to Pumping Plant 1B, City Sump 160
and Pumping Plant 1A to begin in 2023
Complete by
2025
Reach B
San Juan Rd to W.
Elverta Rd
Levee construction began July 2020; expected to be
completed Fall/Winter 2022.
Pumping Plant #3 – Construction began July 2020;
construction completed. Testing underway.
I-5 Window - Construction to begin Spring 2022;
expected to be completed Winter 2022/2023.
Riverside/Pritchard Pumping Plants to begin in 2024.
Complete by
2025
Reach C
W. Elverta Rd to
Sankey Rd
Levee construction was completed in 2008/2009 by
Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency.
Elkhorn Pumping Plant to begin construction in 2023.
Complete by
2025
Reach D
Sankey Rd to
Howsley Rd
Levee construction was completed in 2008/2009 by
Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency.
Highway 99 Window – Construction expected to begin
Summer of 2023.
Pumping Plant #4 – Construction began August 2021;
expected to be completed Fall 2022 / Winter 2023.
Complete by
2025
Reach E
Howsley Rd to
Sankey Rd
Levee construction expected to begin Spring 2023. Complete by 2025
Reaches F&G
Sankey Rd to
NEMDC
Stormwater
Pumping Station
Levee construction and improvements to the levee
slope expected to start Summer 2024 and Pumping
Plant #6 expected to begin Summer 2023.
Construction
underway by
2025
Reach H
NEMDC
Stormwater
Pumping Station to
Northgate Blvd
Levee construction and improvements to Pumping
Stations #8 and #102 began 2018; expected to be
completed Fall 2022.
Complete by
2025
Reach I
Northgate Blvd to
Gateway Oaks Dr
Contract 1: Levee construction and improvements to
Pump Station #58 completed Fall 2022.
Contract 2: Landside levee improvements and
installation of maintenance road expected to begin
Summer 2023.
Complete by
2025
Sources: USACE 2022b, SAFCA.
*Attainment status reflects the most current information at the time of this report. These estimates are subject to change. For projects led by other agencies, SAFCA may not have the capacity to control the schedule.
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Table 3: ARCF 2016 Project Status Detail
Element
Status
ULOP
Attainment*
Sacramento River
East Levee –
Seepage, Stability,
& Overtopping
Contract C1 complete.
Contracts C2 and C3 under construction and
scheduled for completion by end of 2022.
SREL C4 to be constructed in 2023 and 2024.
Complete by 2025
Sacramento River
East Levee –
Erosion
Contract C1 to be constructed in 2022.
Contract C2 to be constructed in 2023 and 2024.
Contract C3 to be constructed in 2025 and 2026.
Contract C4 to be constructed in 2024.
Complete by 2025
except C3,
construction
underway in 2025.
Magpie Creek To be constructed in 2024. Complete by 2025.
North Area Streams Work on Arcade Creek is complete. Minor levee prism maintenance work may be required on
Robla Creek and will be designed and completed
by 2025.
Complete by 2025.
American River –
Erosion
Contract C1 under construction.
Contract C2 – under construction in 2022.
Contract C3A – under construction in 2023
Contract C3B – under construction in 2024
Contract C4 – under construction in 2024
Complete by 2025.
Sacramento Weir
and Bypass
Interior drainage complete.
Pump Station and levee setback to be complete
by 2023.
Sacramento Weir to be under construction by
2023.
Complete by 2025
except Sacramento
Weir, which is not
required for ULOP
and will be under
construction in
2025.
Sources: USACE 2022c, USACE 2022d, SAFCA
*Attainment status reflects the most current information at the time of this report. These estimates are subject to change. For projects led by other agencies, SAFCA may not have the capacity to control the schedule.
2.3 Costs, Revenues, and Appropriations
System improvement costs, or planned expenditures, were shown in the ULOP Plan as required by CGC Section 65007(a)(1). Revenues to fund those expenditures were also identified pursuant to CGC 65007(a)(2)(A). Table 4 shows combined planned expenditures for all agencies along
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with actual expenditures. Table 4 demonstrates that expenditures are keeping pace with or exceeding the planned level.
Table 4: Planned Expenditures ($millions, all sources)
Fiscal
Year
2015-
2016
2016-
2017
2017-
2018
2018-
2019
2019-
2020
2020-
2021
2021-
2022
2022-
2023
2023-
2024
2024-
2025
Original
ULOP
Plan
Costs*
$171.6 $141.0 $111.3 $149.9 $125.5 $125.5 $163.6 $126.6 $126.6 $108.8 Actual
Spent** $167.8 $114.3 $123.1 $171.3 $428.3 $644.5 $608.2 5 N/A N/A N/A
* Original ULOP Plan Costs include capital projects and levee modernization. Values in the 2016 ULOP Plan included system operations and maintenance (O&M) which are no longer shown. ** Actual expenditures are SAFCA actuals plus estimates of other agency expenditures based on funding agreements and/or the progress of the projects. Actuals for 2020-2021 have been adjusted since the last annual report to correct a calculation error.
SAFCA, State, and Federal appropriations also remain consistent with the plan, as shown in Table 5. CGC Section 65007(a)(2)(A) specifies that adequate progress means that 90 percent of the revenues scheduled to be received by that year have been appropriated and are currently being expended. Table 5 shows this requirement has been met with over 100 percent of scheduled revenues appropriated to date. The Federal and State appropriations reflect Congressional authorizations and executed funding agreements. SAFCA appropriations reflect past spending and current year appropriations. Section 3 of this report will describe how these appropriations are being expended.
3. CONSTRUCTION OF CRITICAL FEATURES
Pursuant to Government Code Section 65007(a)(3), adequate progress on construction of a flood protection system means that critical features of the system are under construction and progress is indicated by the expenditure of the budgeted construction funds. The preceding section documented that SAFCA expenditures are on track. This section provides a brief summary of the construction progress in each of the SAFCA protected areas. This report does not distinguish between expenditures for physical construction and those for pre-construction permitting, engineering, and design because the cash flow and planned expenditures in the ULOP Plan do not provide line items for construction alone; and the pre-construction work is a planned and necessary component of ULOP Plan implementation.
All Protected Areas – All of the SAFCA protected basins benefit from the Folsom Dam Modifications. The first element of the modifications, the JFP, was largely completed in 2016. In 2017 the completed project was turned over to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. On June 12, 2019 the Water Control Manual was formally executed. The Folsom Dam Raise construction contract for Dike 8 was awarded in 2019 and construction was completed in 2020. Design work for Dikes 1-6, the main dam, and wing dams is nearly complete; and SAFCA is currently relocating utilities located in the construction footprints for the dikes. Design is underway for
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Table 5: Cumulative Planned Expenditures, Actual Appropriations and Actual Expenditures Through 2021-2022 ($millions, all sources) Agency
Planned
Expenditures*
Actual
Appropriations**
Actual
Expenditures***
Percent
Appropriated
Versus Planned
Expenditures****
Federal $1,322.1 $2,736.8 $2,595.7 >100%
State $813.4 $1,056.6 $730.5 >100%
Local***** $47.5 $47.4 $47.5 100%
SAFCA
****** $361.9 $470.5 $449.1 >100%
Total $2,544.9 $4,311.3 $3,2622.8 >100%
Notes:
*Planned expenses are the planned cumulative capital project expenses from Fiscal Year 2006-2007 through Fiscal Year 2021-2022 as shown in the 2016 ULOP report. ** For purposes of this report, State appropriations represent the amount of executed State funding agreements with SAFCA. Amounts listed as SAFCA appropriations include past spending plus current year appropriations to avoid double-counting unspent appropriations from prior years. *** Actual expenditures are SAFCA actuals plus estimates of other agency expenditures based on funding agreements and/or the progress of the projects. **** The federal and total percent appropriated exceed 100% because the federal Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-123) included full funding for the American River Common Features and Folsom Dam Raise.
*****The majority of the local share was from the City of Folsom for the bridge to relocate private vehicle traffic away from the Folsom Dam, which was a required flood project feature. ******SAFCA actuals were adjusted from the last annual report to correct a calculation error.
Dike 7 and the Mormon Island Auxiliary Dam. The draft final Emergency Spillway Release Diagram has been reviewed and will be used to develop hydrologic loading curves for use in the dam safety risk analysis and final designs.
The Sacramento Weir widening entered the 100 percent design review in February (USACE, 2022a). Weir widening is being integrated with the State of California Lower Elkhorn Basin Levee Setback (LEBLS) project. LEBLS is under construction. SAFCA has relocated the Bryte Landfill to make way for the levee setback, and half of the levee embankment material has been placed for the north levee of the Sacramento River Bypass. Interior drainage and pump station improvements are underway. DWR began work on moving back the east levee of the Yolo Bypass in 2020.
Natomas – SAFCA has largely completed its Natomas Levee Improvement Program (NLIP), which improved levees on the north and part of the west perimeter of the basin. The ARCF 2014 Natomas Basin Project is improving the basin’s remaining levees and drainage infrastructure, which are referred to in sequential reaches starting with Reach A from the American River confluence to San Juan Road and moving around the basin in a clockwise direction (USACE, 2022b). Levee construction is beginning in Reach A on the SREL. USACE Reach B (along the SREL north of San Juan Road) construction is underway, including 4.3 miles of seepage cutoff wall, installation of seepage berms, and flattening landside slopes of some levees. Construction
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at Pumping Plant 3 in this reach is complete. No construction is currently occurring in Reach C.
Levee construction in Reach D (Natomas Cross Canal South Levee) is complete except at Highway 99. Work continues at Pumping Plant 4. Improvements to Reach E (Pleasant Grove Creek Canal West Levee) and F and G (Natomas East Main Drainage Canal West Levee) are currently being designed. Seepage cutoff wells, levee slope flattening, and improvements to two stormwater pumping stations are under construction on USACE Reach H (along the NEMDC West Levee from Dry Creek to Northgate Boulevard). Reach I (American River North Levee west of Northgate Boulevard) included a blanket drain constructed under the I-5 overpass and a cutoff wall to the west along the Garden Highway. Both are now complete. Natomas benefits from the Folsom Dam Modifications discussed above.
Dry Creek North Levee System – No construction projects are required for the Dry Creek North Levee.
Robla Creek South Levee, NEMDC East Levee, and Arcade Creek North Levee – In 2017, 14 relief wells were constructed along the Arcade Creek North Levee. Construction of cutoff walls under SAFCA construction contract 4355 is now substantially complete. Improvements to the Magpie Creek Diversion Channel as part of ARCF 2016 may require minor freeboard maintenance activities on the Robla Creek south levee, which will be investigated and completed by 2025.
American River North Levee – Cutoff walls were constructed along the Arcade Creek South Levee and NEMDC East Levee and were completed by USACE in 2015. Erosion protection is being implemented by USACE and should be complete by 2025 (USACE, 2022a). Contract 2 on the right bank of the American River near H Street Bridge has been awarded. Contract 4A on the right bank near State Route 160 is planned to be through design by 2023.
American River South and Sacramento River East Levee – Structural improvements to the Sacramento River East Levee have been designed, and USACE has retained a construction contractor. Contract 1 included work in the Pocket area and a seepage berm near Front Street and Miller Park that is now complete (USACE, 2022a). The second contract along the Sacramento River East Levee in the Pocket area, includes cutoff wall construction, now complete, and relief wells to address seepage and stability issues. Construction is underway on Contract 3 this year.
Final design is nearing completion for the fourth and final contract to conclude the SREL structural improvements in 2024.
Work is also planned north of Miller Park near U.S. 50. Encroachments in the construction footprint were removed by SAFCA. Under its “levee modernization” project, SAFCA acquired a property adjoining the levee and removed encroachments on it preparatory to splitting the property under the flood easement and conveying fee title to the State or City. A voluntary encroachment removal program has been initiated for other affected properties. Additional structural improvements recommended as a result of evaluations in 2018 included improvements to the Beach Lake Levee and the Sacramento River East Levee downstream of the Beach Lake Levee (MBK, 2018), and 35% design is underway. In 2019, SAFCA also constructed an oak woodland mitigation project to provide a wind-wave buffer for the levee.
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Erosion protection is being constructed by USACE under their WRDA 2016 authorization.
Erosion repair contracts for SREL Contract C1 on the north end of the Little Pocket on the Sacramento River has been awarded for construction beginning this year (USACE, 2022a).
Design is underway for SREL contracts C2, C3, and C4. American River Contract 1 on the left bank near H Street Bridge is in construction, and American River Contract 3A on the left bank near Interstate 80 Business has 95% design underway.
South Sacramento Streams Group –Upstream of the UPRR, construction is complete on the Florin Creek channel improvements and the Florin Creek Multi-Use Basin project. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) issued a LOMR for that work that became effective on March 25, 2019. The City or County may choose to investigate whether some areas where 200-year flood depths are below 3 feet may be newly eligible for a ULOP finding based on 100- year protection.
4. DELAYS
Adequate progress towards achieving an Urban Level of Flood Protection means, according to Government Code section 65007(a)(4), that “the city or county has not been responsible for a significant delay,” among other things. In SAFCA’s flood protected areas, this standard has been achieved. As Table 4 demonstrated, to date local agencies have exceeded 100% of their planned expenditures for flood protection.
The ULOP Criteria recommend that annual progress reports address “any delay in State funding appropriation consistent with an agreement between a State agency and a local flood management agency.” As demonstrated earlier, State appropriations to date exceed their planned level.
Although no local or state delays have occurred and all federal funding has been secured, USACE has indicated that one contract for erosion repairs along the Sacramento River East Levee and a portion of the Natomas Basin levee improvement may not be completed by the end of 2025. SAFCA is evaluating whether this will have an impact on achieving ULOP, and will make any necessary updates to the schedule prior to the 2023 annual report.
5. REFERENCES FOR DATA USED
AECOM. 2015. Draft Environmental Impact Report. North Sacramento Streams, Sacramento River East Levee, Lower American River, and Related Flood Improvements Project. State Clearinghouse No. 2008072060. Prepared for Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency. March.
DOF (California Department of Finance). 2019. State budget detail. Department of Water Resources. May Revise. Available at:
http://www.ebudget.ca.gov/2019-
20/pdf/GovernorsBudget/3000/3860.pdf. Accessed 5/31/2019.
DWR (California Department of Water Resources). 2012. Urban Levee Design Criteria. May.
DWR. 2013. Urban Level of Flood Protection Criteria. November.
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DWR. 2017. Central Valley Flood Protection Plan 2017 Update. August.
EPS (Economic & Planning Systems, Inc.). 2016. Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency Development Impact Fee Program 2016 Update. Prepared for Sacramento Area flood Control Agency (SAFCA). October.
ESA, 2014. Florin Creek Multi-Use Basin Project. Initial Study with Intent to Adopt a Mitigated Negative Declaration. State Clearinghouse No. 2014032030. Prepared for Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency. March.
MBK (MBK Engineers). 2016. Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency Adequate Progress Towards an Urban Level of Flood Protection Engineer’s Report. Prepared for SAFCA.
MBK. 2018. Status of ULDC Evaluation of the Beach Lake Levee. Memo to Pete Ghelfi, SAFCA, from Ric Reinhardt, P.E., MBK Engineers.
SAFCA. 2016. Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency Final Urban Level of Flood Protection Plan and Adequate Progress Baseline Report. Prepared for the City of Sacramento and parts of Sacramento and Sutter counties. June 10.
SAFCA. 2017. 2017 Urban Level of Flood Protection Adequate Progress Annual Report.
Prepared for the City of Sacramento and parts of Sacramento and Sutter counties. August 9.
USACE (United States Army Corps of Engineers). 2015. American River Common Features General Reevaluation Report. Final Report. Sacramento District. December. Available at:
http://www.spk.usace.army.mil/Portals/12/documents/civil_works/CommonFeatures/Final_ARC F_GRR_Jan2016.pdf. Accessed June 3, 2016.
USACE. 2017. Record of Decision. Folsom Dam Raise Project. Placer, Sacramento, and El Dorado Counties, California. December 18. Available at:
https://www.spk.usace.army.mil/Portals/12/documents/civil_works/JFP/Raise/ROD_FolsomDam _Raise_Signed_18Dec2017.pdf?ver=2018-03-09-124144-317. Accessed 7/31/2019.
USACE. 2022a. Sacramento Levee upgrades. Available at:
https://www.spk.usace.army.mil/Missions/Civil-Works/Sacramento-Levee-Upgrades/ . Accessed
5/18/2022.
USACE. 2022b. Natomas Basin. Available at: https://www.spk.usace.army.mil/natomas/ .
Accessed 5/18/2022.
USACE. 2022c. Unpublished schedule information on American River Common Features 2016.
May 19.
USACE. 2022d. Unpublished schedule information on Lower American River erosion contracts.
June 17.
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WSP Parsons Brinckerhoff (PB). 2016. Engineer’s Report. Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency. Consolidated Capital Assessment District No. 2. June 13. " ..
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Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency
August 24, 2022
Mr. Remi Mendoza
Planning Division
City of Sacramento
300 Richards Blvd, 3rd Floor
Sacramento, CA 95811-0218
Mr. David Tomm
Public Works
County of Sutter
1130 Civic Center Blvd.
Yuba City, CA 95993
Mr. George Booth
Department of Water Resources
County of Sacramento
827 Seventh St, Room 301
Sacramento, CA 95814
SUBJECT: URBAN LEVEL OF FLOOD PROTECTION ADEQUATE PROGRESS
ANNUAL REPORT
Dear Sirs:
Enclosed please find the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency (SAFCA) 2022 Urban Level of Flood Protection Annual Report. This report identifies SAFCA' s progress on achieving the Urban Level of Flood Protection (ULOP) for State Plan of Flood Control (SPFC) facilities within our jurisdiction. On July 21, 2022, the SAFCA Board of Directors approved Resolution No. 2022-077 approving distribution of this report. Because this progress is germane to the authorities vested in your agency, I encourage your agency to use the information provided herein in conjunction with your own data andjudgment in reporting annual progress to the Central Valley Flood Board prior to September 30.
Although no local or State delays have occurred and all Federal funding has been secured, USACE has indicated that one contract for erosion repairs along the Sacramento River East Levee and a portion of the Natomas Basin levee improvement may not be completed by the end of 2025 as a result of building in scheduling contingencies into their schedules. In recognition of USACE scheduling contingencies, on August 18, 2022, the SAFCA Board of Directors approved Resolution No. 2022-090 authorizing the Executive Director to work with the State legislature and regional partners to adjust the statutory date of attainment of the ULOP standard in case some elements of the US ACE work are not fully complete by 2025. This will allow SAFCA to work to assist in protecting the interests of SAFCA' s member agencies who could otherwise lose the legal authority to approve development in areas where construction delays could make it impossible to find that ULOP has been or will be attained by the end of 2025.
Office 916-874-7606
Fax 916-874-8289
1325 J Street, Suite 1540
Sacramento, CA 95814-3407
ULFP Adequate Progress
SAFCA appreciates the opportunity to work with your agency on flood matters of mutual interest, and looks forward to continued cooperation in achieving adequate progress in this and future years.
Enclosure
cc (w/o enclosure):
Jason Campbell
Melanie Saucier
Mick Klasson
Programs and Project Management Division
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
1325 J Street, 9th Floor
Sacramento, CA 95814
Mr. Kyle Bickler
California Department of Water Resources
3464 El Camino Avenue, Suite 200
Sacramento, CA 95821
Ms. Alessia Siclari
California Department of Water Resources
3464 El Camino A venue, Suite 200
Sacramento, CA 95821
Mr. Derek Larsen
Larsen Wurzel & Associates, Inc.
2450 Venture Oaks Way Suite 240
Sacramento, CA 95833
Office 916-87 4-1606
Fax 916-87 4-8289
1007 7th Street, 7th Floor
Sacramento, CA 95814-3407