What we are seeing is (a) flow making its way down the lower San Joaquin.
What we're living on is a system that has been built over 100 years. It certainly is not up to the current practices that we would do in levee design, so we're doing our best with resources available to make the necessary improvements.
Our goal is to try to maintain flows at a level that the flood control system should perform adequately.
Our goal is to try and maintain the river levels and keep flows at a regulated level. It takes a lot of planning and coordination for an extended period of time.
We're certainly guarded with the weather, how it's coming in right now and how it's going to play out in the system. But right now we're very optimistic.
I think it's a known fact these stages are designed to get up this high and this is the way the flood system operates.
Right now, things are performing as expected. We don't have any reports of significant flood-fighting activities like we embarked on three months ago.
It's obviously not going to get better for a long time. Nature will take its course a little bit here.
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