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Napa River- Napa Creek Flood Protection Project Downtown Napa

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<strong>Flood</strong> Control Act of 1965<br />

authorizes a <strong>Napa</strong> <strong>River</strong> <strong>Project</strong><br />

Designs are standard COE issue:<br />

– Deepen channel with dredging<br />

– Straighten channel – eliminate Oxbow<br />

– Rip rap banks of a trapezoidal channel<br />

– Levees and flood walls<br />

Proposals go to the voters in 1976 and<br />

1977 – both are rejected

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