Editing West Sacramento, California (section)

=== California Highway Patrol ===
West Sacramento is the home of the [[California Highway Patrol]] Academy,<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.chp.ca.gov/recruiting/academybrochure.html | title = California Highway Patrol Academy | publisher = California Highway Patrol (chp.ca.gov) | access-date = September 17, 2014}}</ref> and the CHP Museum is housed on the same grounds.<ref>{{citation | url = http://matchpro.org/Archives/2004/chp.pdf | title = California Highway Patrol | first = Mike | last = Prero | date = September 2004 | quote = Senate Bill 2147 sponsored by State Senator Jack O'Connell gives Commissioner Dwight O. "Spike" Helmick the authorization to plan and construct a California Highway Patrol Museum on the Department's Academy grounds in West Sacramento. The bill requires the construction to be funded entirely with private contributions with the exception of eligible federal funds.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title = California Highway Patrol | url = http://www.arcadiapublishing.com/9780738556208/California-Highway-Patrol | publisher = Arcadia Publishing | year = 2008 | quote = ...and the California Highway Patrol museum located at the CHP Academy in Sacramento...}}</ref>

In 2007–2008 there were efforts to move the California Highway Patrol official headquarters from [[Sacramento]] (in [[Sacramento County]]) to West Sacramento (in [[Yolo County]]),<ref>{{cite news | title = New CHP HQ takes U-turn | date = May 11, 2008 | first = Michael | last = Shaw | work = Sacramento Business Journal | url = http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2008/05/12/story3.html}}</ref> but these were ultimately unsuccessful.<ref>{{cite news | title = CHP signs lease for HQ off Richards Boulevard | date = June 27, 2008 | first = Kelly | last = Johnson | work = Sacramento Business Journal | url = http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/stories/2008/06/23/daily55.html}}</ref>

[[File:West Sacramento, CA, Riverbank Stabilization, 2006 - panoramio (1).jpg|thumb|[[Sacramento River]] bank stabilization project in the city (2006).]]
[[File:West Sacramento setback levee construction (6131507398).jpg|thumb|U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Central Valley Flood Protection Board joint effort to upgrade Sacramento River [[levee]]s in West Sacramento (2011).]]
[[File:West Sacramento setback levee construction (6131507898).jpg|thumb|Crews construct the new setback levee along South River Road in West Sacramento (2011).]]
[[File:Corps completes new paved setback levee in West Sacramento (14963245344).jpg|thumb|Corps completes new paved setback levee in West Sacramento (2014).]]
[[File:West Sacramento levee road now open (16883475616).jpg|thumb|Completed setback levee, now functioning as South River Road in West Sacramento (2015).]]