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Tiburon flood officials back $800k in design costs for creek restoration

Tiburon flood board backs design contracts for Bel Aire creek upgrades after trimming nearly $400K from original estimate.

FRANCISCO MARTINEZ / THE ARKA dried-up East Creek adjacent to The Cove shopping center’s parking lot is pictured here July 23. The Marin Flood Zone District 4 advisory board approved nearly $800,000 in design-related costs — $692,971 for design work and $100,000 for project management related to it — at its July 22 meeting for a creek-restoration project at the East and West creeks in Tiburon’s Bel Aire neighborhood to help reduce flood risks in the area.
Francisco Martinez
By FRANCISCO MARTINEZ · 1 min read

Tiburon flood officials have backed spending $700,000 to design a creek-restoration project aimed at reducing risks to the Bel Aire neighborhood after they trimmed the original estimate by nearly $400,000.

The Marin Flood Zone District 4 advisory board voted 3-0 July 22 to recommend the county Board of Supervisors approve a $692,971 design contract with West Sacramento-based firm CBEC Inc. for the East and West creeks project. The supervisors’ vote is tentatively set for Aug. 19.

In a separate vote, the flood board also approved a $100,000 project-management contract with Concord-based Harrison Engineering for the design work, updating an existing contract and bringing total design-related expenditures to $792,971.

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A version of this story appeared in the July 30, 2025, print edition of The Ark. See something wrong? Request a correction.
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