About this effort
I'm William Tucker, a licensed California civil engineer (PE #26071) with 55 years of heavy infrastructure experience, including the Golden Gate Bridge seismic retrofit, BART, and the Bay Bridge. My specialty is exactly the kind of construction this project requires: sheet pile walls, cofferdams, and deep foundations in San Francisco Bay Mud.
I also live at 70 Vendola Drive. My home is in the flood zone. When the levee breached on January 3, 2026, the water that came through affected my neighborhood — and the assessment the County is preparing would land on my tax bill too.
Why an independent effort is needed
About 600 homes in Santa Venetia sit in the high-risk flood zone — roughly a third of the neighborhood. Yet after five years:
- There is no construction schedule. Nothing starts until the environmental review is certified, and staff then estimate two to three years for easements — putting a finished wall five to seven years out.
- There is no finance plan, though one was promised by the end of 2025.
- The County's five-year capital plan programs $0 for construction.
- Project information is scattered across dozens of documents written in technical and administrative language.
The existing oversight channels have not closed these gaps. Affected homeowners deserve an independent technical reading of the public record — and a way to act on it together.
Two jobs at once
This site does two things that can look contradictory and are not.
It keeps the pressure on. Five years of missed dates did not correct themselves, and they will not correct themselves now. Deadlines that are public get met more often than deadlines that are internal. So the record here is kept current, in plain language, with the County's own documents cited — including the ones that are inconvenient.
And it backs the wall getting built. Every household here wants the same object in the ground. When the County moves the project forward, this site says so. When a neighbor asks how to help it along, the answer here is a real one. Opposition is not the goal and never was — a neighborhood that reads as anti-project loses the influence it needs at exactly the moment it needs it.
The line between those two is not always comfortable to walk. The test applied here is simple: does this get the wall built sooner, and does it tell the truth?
The information gap
There is a third job, and for most residents it is the useful one. What a homeowner in this flood zone actually needs — where the sandbags are, what an easement donation commits you to, whether flood insurance covers you, when the next decision gets made — is scattered across County websites, PDFs, staff reports and meeting minutes, written for administrators rather than for the people whose floors get wet. Most people cannot find it, and should not have to. Putting it in one place, in ordinary words, is most of what this site is for.
What this site is — and is not
- It is an independent, resident-led information source. Every figure on this site comes from a public document, and the source is named.
- It is not affiliated with the County of Marin, the Flood Control District, or the Santa Venetia Neighborhood Association.
- It is not opposed to the floodwall. The goal is the opposite: get a wall built as quickly as possible, at the lowest possible cost to homeowners.
- The goal is simple: get the wall built — to protect my home, my neighbors, and this neighborhood.
Contact
William Tucker, PE #26071
70 Vendola Drive, Santa Venetia
(415) 717-0196 · mail@svfloodfacts.org