Their are plenty of irrigation ditches and a big creek/small river to carry it away. Unfortunately it it as flat as a pool table here, consequently drainage is very slow and any sudden rain of a 1/2" or more will back up rapidly and flood some intersections. The town is growing rapidly and getting infrastructure in place takes a while, especially the funding. We're in the process of building the first Univ. of Calif campus in 30 years and that is taking a lot of resources; water and sewage lines, streets and roads, utilities, etc, etc. That deep backup I mentioned was a 100 year rainfall for us in one month. We normally get about 11-1/2" per year, that time we got about 3" in one day. Most of comes in the range of 0.01" to 0.25" at a time from mid-to-late Sept. to mid April.
There won't be any news on the job for 3-4 weeks. There are 5 screens (not counting the drug test); application must be completely filled out, must meet the minimum requirements, written test, typing test, oral board exam. Each step weeds out some people. After the oral exam, they put some arbritrary number of names on an eligibility list. When they get ready to hire, they call the eligibles in one at a time for the final selection until one accepts the position. It's partly federally funded so the it's a typical government forest of red tape.
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