Roseville Flood Walls and Other Improvements Protect Homeowners from Floods

Flood Mitigation Projects

Flood walls, Roseville, CA

The City of Roseville, CA used funding from the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program to create the Dry Creek Regional Project. The project included projects along Dry Creek from its headwaters in Placer county, where it is joined by Kirby and Linda creeks and flows through Roseville and into Sacramento county and the town of Rio Linda. The property owners were suffering repetitive losses by flooding and the result were a series of channel improvements, bank armament (call rip-rap), bridge improvements, elevations and other actions that have reduced the losses along the river during period of heavy rain. The project was tested several times by heavy rainfall since its construction and no losses were suffered.

Dry Creek flows through a residential neighborhood known as East Park. The flood wall can be seen in the distance. In flood years this stream ran into restricted channeling as it ran under nearby Interstate 80 freeway. The result would be the backing up of the water eventually overtopping nearby berms and flooding dozens of houses. President Bill Clinton toured the area in February of 1997. (See following photos).

Flood wall along Dry Creek in Roseville, CA.

Flood wall along Dry Creek in Roseville, CA.