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Sacramento County declares local emergency over levee erosion near Rancho Murieta

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SACRAMENTO — Sacramento County declared a local emergency over "significant uncontrolled levee erosion" in an area pummeled by the 2023 winter storms

The county said its emergency proclamation came in response to Reclamation District 800 proclaiming an emergency over the issue on Monday. 

Leland Schneider with Reclamation District 800 told CBS Sacramento that they discovered the issue about two weeks ago in the Rancho Murieta area near Michigan Bar and have been working around the clock to fix it.  

Schneider said the district believes no one nearby is in immediate danger and all the work being done now is proactive to prevent any major flooding with this week's active weather. The county also said no one was being evacuated.

A spokesperson for the county attributes the erosion to the historic 2023 floods and said crews did not have the time to address fixes. 

Reclamation District 800's jurisdiction encompasses the area and levees that begin at Rancho Murieta along the Cosumnes River and end southwest at Freeman Road in the Wilton area.

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