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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman John Garamendi is hailing the the reactivation of the Lower Cache Creek Feasibility Study by the US Army Corps of Engineers.

The study, which was suspended in 2015, will help determine the most fiscally and environmentally responsible method of protecting against the risk of flooding from the Lower Cache Creek.

Funding to conduct the study was secured by Garamendi in conjunction with Woodland city officials as a part of the America's Water Infrastructure Act of 2018 (Water Resources Development Act) expected to be signed into law soon.

DENVER — President Donald Trump has ordered the government to streamline regulations that he says are hindering work on four major water projects in the western United States and specifically targeted the Central Valley Project.

Trump signed a memorandum Friday aimed at the Central Valley Project and the California State Water Project in California, the Klamath Irrigation Project in Oregon and the federal Columbia River system in the Pacific Northwest.

Ask any environmental policy expert and they'll tell you that water rights, water supply and water quality initiatives are complicated and contentious issues in California.

Those issues are about to get a whole lot more complicated.

Speaking publicly against separating children from their parents who crossed the United States border illegally isn't something Vacaville resident Michael Kitzes is taking lightly.

"I struggled with it for awhile," he said about going public in opposition to how the children are being treated. "They're ripping these children away from families."

Kitzes, a Vacaville Unified School board member and a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist for 28 years, added that it might be easy to call this an immigration issue, but it's so much more than that.

After several sessions of Congress (beginning with the 109th) failed to yield monetary benefits to our WWII Merchant Mariners to compensate for their absence of GI Bill benefits, it appeared that finally the 114th Congress (2015-16) would offer some overdue recognition in the form of the Congressional Gold Medal. The bill (H.R. 2992) passed in a special session of "legislation considered under suspension of the rules"; however, the Senate companion bill (S. 2989) did not garnish enough support.

Larry Munger clearly remembers the 1955 flood that devastated Yuba City.

Munger was one of about 100 people who attended the Sutter Butte Flood Control Agency's dedication ceremony for the Feather River West Levee Project 1 on Saturday at Shanghai Bend in Yuba City.

Last week, Congressman John Garamendi (D- CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Subcommittee for Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation, introduced The Energizing American Shipbuilding Act of 2018.

The bipartisan bill, which would require the construction of over fifty ships and the creation of thousands of maritime and mariners' jobs, is being carried in the Senate by Senator Roger Wicker (R-MS).

The House on Wednesday night approved a nearly $3 billion bill to improve the nation's ports, dams and harbors, protect against floods, restore shorelines and support other water-related projects.

As part of that legislation, Congressman John Garamendi, D-3rd District, was able to insert language that will expedite a Cache Creek flood study through the Army Corps of Engineers.

Woodland has been seeking completion of the study for some time to provide greater protection to the north and northeast side of the community.