The public is invited to meetings next week to learn about two new levee repair projects along the American River.

The first meeting will be held Tuesday concerning a plan by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build a seepage cutoff wall 3,300 feet long in the levee on the north bank of the American River, just east of the Natomas East Main Drainage Canal, near Del Paso Road. The meeting is from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday at the American River Flood Control District office, 165 Commerce Circle in Sacramento.

The second project involves widening, realigning and strengthening more than 1,300 feet of levee along the north bank of the American River near William Pond Park. This meeting is Thursday from 4 to 6 p.m. at the American River Parkway Foundation office, 5700 Arden Way, in Carmichael.

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