From the Sacramento River, the progression of work to strengthen one of the city’s most important lines of flood defense can be seen in a single boat trip.
At some locations, barges and heavy equipment are placing rock along the shoreline. A short distance away, completed sites show what that construction is designed to become as native vegetation takes hold along the rebuilt riverbank.
Project team members traveled the river Sept. 30 to view active and completed portions of the Sacramento River erosion protection work, part of the American River Common Features 2016 project…