https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/03/19/who-deserves-a-levee-the-fight-to-save-california-communities-from-flooding/

The tiny town of Hamilton City sits in the direct path of the mighty Sacramento River, muddy and swollen by this month’s storms.

But a new $125 million levee system – the product of the community’s 35-year-long fight to make something big from something broken — is protecting its 1,900 farmworkers and their families.