Editorial: Officials trying to keep Ross Valley flood plan on track face big decisions

Editorial: Officials trying to keep Ross Valley flood plan on track face big decisions

As it nears the end of its 20-year disappointing initiative, Marin County is right not to raise the annual Ross Valley flood control fee. Progress toward its promised goal would be justification for raising the fee, but the Ross Valley project is completing a history of being mired in controversy, political battles, piles of costly engineering and environmental studies and a slow-moving bureaucracy. The county Board of Supervisors decided to kee…