Our March speaker will be Pete Ghelfi, P.E., Director of Engineering for the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency.  He will be providing an update on Sacramento area flood protection activities.

Pete Ghelfi has been the Director of Engineering for SAFCA since 2000. He has been involved in numerous flood control projects that have led to increased flood protection to the Sacramento area. The majority of Pete’s time is to represent SAFCA in SAFCA’s partnership with the Corps of Engineers, State Department of Water Resources/California Central Valley Flood Protection Board staff to implement over $2.5 billion in needed flood control improvements in the Sacramento area. Projects worked on include slurry wall construction along the Sacramento and American Rivers, various levee repair projects, underseepage remediation, erosion protection, improvements to Folsom Dam, levee certification efforts along the American River, Sacramento River and South Sacramento Streams, and the re-mapping of over 82,000 parcels out of the regulatory floodplain.