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CA Gets Poor Grades for Infrastructure, Needs $65B

SACRAMENTO-Infrastructure systems ranging from aviation to water pull a ‘C’ average from civil engineers.

By Carrie Rossenfeld | Updated on March 02, 2012

(Mark Your Calendars: RealShare REAL ESTATE 2012, March 22nd in Los Angeles). SACRAMENTO-Water and urban runoff top the list of infrastructure sectors that need the most immediate attention in the state, Yaz Emrani, executive committee co-chair for the American Society of Civil Engineers’ California Infrastructure Report Card and co-chair of the infrastructure policy committee for ASCE Region 9, tells GlobeSt.com. The finding came from the California Infrastructure Report Card 2012, which ASCE’s Region 9 just released, giving California’s infrastructure an overall grade of “C.”

Moreover, the report—the second one issued since 2006—found an additional annual investment of $65 billion is needed to improve the total infrastructure to an adequate level. This amount includes what Emrani reveals to GlobeSt.com is roughly $4.6 billion per year for the next decade to fix the state’s water infrastructure, which was the only grade to decrease from the 2006 report card—down from a C+ to a C. Ensuring adequate supply is a main concern for the current system, he adds.

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