13 Quotes by Gary Bardini

What we're living on is a system that has been built over 100 years. It certainly is not up to the current practices that we would do in levee design, so we're doing our best with resources available to make the necessary improvements.

I think it's a known fact these stages are designed to get up this high and this is the way the flood system operates.

Our goal is to try to maintain flows at a level that the flood control system should perform adequately.

Our goal is to try and maintain the river levels and keep flows at a regulated level. It takes a lot of planning and coordination for an extended period of time.

We're certainly guarded with the weather, how it's coming in right now and how it's going to play out in the system. But right now we're very optimistic.

When you look at the Napa area, that location does not have a set of reservoir systems and unfortunately is not able to handle peak rainfall, which translated into some urban flooding for that community.

What we are seeing is (a) flow making its way down the lower San Joaquin.

The rise won't be as high as we saw a week ago, certainly not as high as we saw three months ago.

These rises are going to be fairly high but not near as high as what we saw three months ago.