Re: Flood protection ideas

To stop Marysville from flooding: 1. We need a dam at Parks Bar where Highway 20 crosses the Yuba River before Smartsville. 2. We need to clean out river beds. 3. We need to build up levees. We build up levees along rivers but it is obvious the “tricky Yuba” is the fastest runoff of the Sierra Nevada mountain range. Why build Sites dam for Los Angeles and let Marysville and Yuba city flood?

For Sites to have water, they will have to pump water uphill 16 miles. Water only runs uphill for politics and money.

W.T. Ellis is the man who named it “the tricky Yuba” and a commemoration of him is in the levee south of First Street in Marysville. Ellis Lake was named after him.

The deep curbs at the Marysville post office were for people to step out of buggies onto the curb, when we had horse drawn carriages for transportation before cars.

Miners bought goods in Marysville and went back to their mines in the Sierra Nevada mountains. When hydraulic mining at the Malokoff Mine washed whole mountains through sluice boxes to recover gold, they raised the Yuba River bed 80 feet above its original status. The miners didn’t vote and townspeople outlawed hydraulic mining. But the riverbeds were still 80 feet above the original riverbeds and Marysville was no longer a “fall line.”

Flat bottom boats from San Francisco used to come up river to Marysville for trade with the miners, until rivers were no longer traversable because of the silt in the Feather River from mining.

We need to do these three things to prevent future flooding in Marysville: 1. Build a dam at Parks Bar. 2. Dredge the Yuba River bed. 3. Build up the levees.