Regarding last week’s review of the description of the walking trail “between the city and the town” (“Crucial concerns,” Feb. 22) … What town and what city?
If a trail along the “levee” is envisioned, let it be known there is no levee in Guadalupe. The Santa Maria River embankment/levee stops above (east of) the Union Pacific Railroad bridge, which crosses the riverbed dividing Guadalupe and Oso Flaco and Santa Barbara and SLO counties.
Guadalupe residents and former city councils have long sought to have a reinforced levee along the western end of the river as it goes to the sea. A torrential downpour threatens the Boys and Girls Clubhouse, further along is the Waste Water treatment plant, and some homes along the southwest bank of the river. When federal funds were made available, it all went for the upper Santa Maria River.
This article appears in Mar 1-8, 2018.