Due to heavy rains over New Year's and also to releases from the Folsom Dam, the Sacramento River is running high and swift. This stretch of the river is south of downtown and just north of the Greenhaven area where we live. These pillars are attached to a concrete platform which is about six feet above water during the summer. Today, I estimate the platform is now under about nine to ten feet of water. You can see how fast the river is flowing by the eddies around the base of the pillars. It sounds like a brook over rocks!
Although some levees south of here have been compromised by the increased flow and the heavy rains, these levees are not expected to pose any problems this year. (Knock wood.)
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