D.P. Myers, a program manager for the conservancy, pointed to the River View Golf Course in Santa Ana, a tract built on the flood channel in 1994. Builders poured dirt on both sides of the ...

The last of new flood control improvements along the lower Santa Ana River are expected to wrap up this spring, part of a decades-long series of projects that federal and local officials say will ...

New flood plain maps will be released today, relieving all property owners along the Santa Ana River from Garfield to Slater avenues from mandatory flood insurance, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R ...

The flood totaled every bridge along the Santa Ana River from Yorba down to Newport Beach. It covered the county in swirling waters that ranged from two to 15 feet deep and didn't recede for days.

A series of ensuing engineering projects reduced that risk. The Santa Ana River system did not flood after the January 2023 storms hit Southern California. The river actually surpasses FEMA’s ...

The 1938 Santa Ana River flood will be the topic for the Redlands Area Historical Society’s March 27 program. Suzie Earp, who recently retired as the water historian, archivist and director of ...

CORONA, Calif. - About three dozen Green River residents attended a meeting here, July 25, to learn about the progress of the ongoing flood risk management project adjacent to their homes and to ...

Imagine Orange County with a river. Not a scary river lined ... That’s especially true in Orange County, where the Santa Ana posed a serious flood threat to homes and businesses.

According to Mitchell's The Santa Ana River Guide, a catastrophic flood in 1862 followed by a two-year drought led ranches to switch from cattle grazing to planting row crops; it finished off ...

Adapted to the boom-and-bust flood cycles of Southern California's rivers, the Santa Ana sucker now finds itself smack in the middle of one of the most urbanized places in North America. With its ...

Firefighters rescued five people who were caught in flood waters flowing through the Santa Ana River in San Bernardino and Redlands on Thursday afternoon, Feb. 14. Three people were transported to ...