A levee broke Friday night and initially forced around 1,700 people from their home. Now, thousands more are being asked to leave and others in the county are being told not to drink the water.
"We got notice that the levees were overtopping with water and then a portion of the levee broke about three miles upstream and it's the size of a train car," said Luis Alejo, Monterey Board of Supervisor Chair.
"It's a tremendous volume of water it continues to accumulate as we speak," said Lew Bauman, interim GM Monterey County Water Resources Agency.During a press conference on Saturday, officials announced that some of this water is draining on the west side of the community, but they also detailed current flood projections that show the situation getting worse in the days to come.
"Again I want to reiterate this is a model it's based on a variety of assumptions and the weather service will be updating this probably 8-10 times before Tuesday so these are very preliminary numbers and we hope those projected flows are less than currently projected," said Lew Bauman, interim GM Monterey County Water Resources Agency.
State and county water officials are now closely eying the levee and what can be done to fix it but currently no solution is in place."At this time we do not have a precise estimate on what it will take to stop the breach," Bauman said. In the 15 or so hours after the levee breach, more than 90 rescues were made according to the Monterey County Sheriff's Office.
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