Mike Inamine is Executive Director of the Sutter Butte Flood Control Agency (SBFCA). In this capacity, he leads an aggressive $312 million program to rehabilitate and improve 44 miles of levees in the Sutter Basin in California’s Central Valley. His 30 years of civil engineering and management experience encompasses the planning, design and construction of dams, reservoirs, canals, levees, hydraulic structures, fish facilities, and other civil engineering structures. Mr. Inamine formerly held key leadership positions for the California Department of Water Resources in the Executive, Flood Management, and Engineering Divisions. Mr. Inamine’s assignments included key roles in numerous flood emergencies and investigations, including program manager of the $350 million California Critical Repairs Program and the California Levee Evaluations Program, Construction Office Chief, and spokesperson on a variety of flood policy and technical issues.

Mike will present information about SBFCA’s Feather River West Levee Project (FRWLP), which will achieve 200-year protection for over 90,000 people living in and around the Sutter Basin communities of Biggs, Gridley, Live Oak, and Yuba City.   SBFCA’s plans also include 100-year protection for the rural southern portion of the Sutter Basin.  The levee system along the west bank of the Feather River dates back to before the 1900s and is vulnerable to underseepage and through seepage.  The first of a series of construction contracts to repair and improve 35 miles of levees began in July of this year, and will extend from Star Bend in the south (south of Yuba City) to Thermalito Afterbay (part of the Oroville Complex) in the north.  The project includes construction of slurry walls implemented under a risk-prioritized schedule, with construction expected to be completed by 2016. Mike’s presentation will also address the USACE Sutter Basin Feasibility Study, California Central Valley Flood Protection Plan (CVFPP), Feather River Regional Flood Management Plan and other associated design and construction opportunities.