Tom Gamble has a vineyard near the Napa River, and when the rain fall reached nine inches late October, the river restoration projects were put to the test.
“I was able to walk it after the flow, and I realized I still like to play in the mud because it’s very muddy, but it held up extremely well against its first test,” he said. “Having been around the Napa River all my life, I’ve noticed that rains that would have caused serious floods have not, and not that floods are completely alleviated, but the severity of the damage they do has been declining,” says Tom Gamble.
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