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Sacramento County wants to buy a boat to clear abandoned cars, boats from river
SACRAMENTO — The Sacramento County Sheriff's Office is trying to buy a new boat worth more than a million dollars, but this is no luxury yacht.The department estimates there are currently more than 100 sunken cars and boats on the bottom of the river, and this new tool will help bring them back up.Sgt. Sam Flores with the Sacramento Sheriff's Marine Unit said it's a constant battle to clean up boats and vehicles dumped in the delta. They can see many of them using sonar."We do have a list of sunken vessels and sunken vehicles that grows pretty much every...
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