by Jeremy Couso
It was a busy Tuesday in Susanville’s Memorial Park as emergency crews, with the help of the Lassen College baseball team, scrambled to repair damage to a levee on Paiute Creek. The compromised earthen dike diverted a torrent of water into the Memorial Park ball field.
Paiute Creek, normally sedate as it winds through the park, reached the top of its banks Tuesday after a morning of steady rain and runoff. The 5-foot break in the levee, which separates the creek from the ball field and park, allowed the floodwaters into the field south of the home team dugout.
Lassen baseball players had just finished making repairs to damage done during last month’s flooding.
Responding to the flood were Lassen OES, Susanville Fire Department, Lassen County Sheriff’s Office, the Susanville Police Department and Cal-Fire. Coaches, staff and players from the Lassen Baseball team also pitched in to help create a temporary repair to the levee.
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