SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Residents in an area of Wilton in southeastern Sacramento County have been told to seek higher ground ahead of what county emergency officials said Saturday night was an “imminent levee failure” on a portion of the Cosumnes River.
The Sacramento County Office of Emergency Services issued the advisory around 9:30 p.m. following a flash flood warning from the National Weather Service for the breach.
The river at Wilton Road in the area of the advisory was observed at 76.20 feet — nearly 3 feet above flood stage and 25 feet above the river bottom — according to the county’s river gauge. That flood stage is set by the levee near Cecatra Drive, which overtops at approximately 73.5 feet, according to the county.
