California Senator Alex Padilla visited Watsonville on Wednesday to meet with residents impacted by recent floods and ensure the community that they’re working to improve infrastructure inequities.
Heavy rains over the weekend breached a levee on the Pajaro River on California's Central Coast, flooding out nearly the entire town.in the area in President Biden’s bi-partisan infrastructure law, but mother nature didn’t wait for the 74-year-old levee to be fixed. Biden recently declared a Major Disaster Declaration for the area.
Padilla said low-income communities like Pajaro take longer to recover and he’s pushing to change the federal government's benefit cost ratio formula to ensure those communities get equal protection.Sen. Alex Padilla on Tuesday met with families at the Santa Cruz County fairgrounds still displaced by the Pajaro floods.
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