Funding added for Keys Creek flood control channel monitoring

An additional $75,000 was added to the San Diego County Flood Control District's fiscal year 2016-17 budget for the biological and cultural monitoring of the Keys Creek flood control channel.

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors, who are also the governing body members of the San Diego County Flood Control District, voted 5-0 Dec. 13 to use a fund balance from the 2015-16 fiscal year for the biological and cultural monitoring of sediment removal activities.

K. Hovnanian built the Lake Rancho Viejo Unit 3 development which modified a section of Keys Creek to provide flood control. A flood...