The county's flood plan will not be finished before the storms arrive, the state has offered no money, and clearing even one flood-prone creek would take up to 18 months of permitting and cost $1 million.
County code enforcement said 2 out of every 5 reports of code violations are not getting addressed due to staffing, and reports of seniors getting forced from their homes due to code violations proved unfounded.
We reviewed a decade of campaign finance reports after Gov. Newsom vetoed AB 2494. Timber interests gave about $235,000; tribal & environmental backers gave almost nothing.
Participants include congressional contenders Mike McGuire and James Gallagher, plus candidates for the Ukiah City Council, school board and county Board of Education. It takes at the Ukiah Civic Center.
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Fort Bragg took the spotlight this week: regulators called for a rewrite of the mill site cleanup plan, the CV Starr solar array remained offline, and a temporary raw water line failed when a coupling broke.
State toxics regulators have told Mendocino Railway to rewrite its cleanup plan for the mill site's contaminated ponds, and to stop calling the fence around the largest pond effective until it is replaced.
The new solar array at the C.V. Starr Recreation Center in Fort Bragg has yet to produce an power despite being finished months ago. This story asked why.
Fort Bragg narrowly averted a new threat to its water supply after a coupling on a temporary line failed about two hours after it was put into service Sept. 26.
Workers are shortening the new wooden fence along Highway 1 in Fort Bragg, cutting down the boards one at a time, and the city says the work should be done by Friday.
