Marin City slated to receive portable flood pumps
The Marin County Public Works Department hopes to complete a $2.5 million project by mid-winter that will ease, but not eradicate, the flooding problem in Marin City. The project calls for the purchase of two portable pumps and the installation of 1,400 feet of pipes to transport rainwater more quickly to Marin City Pond, a 3-acre detention basin next to the Gateway Shopping Center. “The pumps won’t solve the problem;” said Rosemarie Gaglione, the county’s public works director, “but they’re going to improve it very much.” Gaglione said that because of the topography in Marin City, a major storm is not required for flooding to occur there. She noted that the area has flooded at least once every year since she joined the county three years ago.