The town of Paradise is working to mitigate future flooding as climate change makes storm events more common and there’s less vegetation after the 2018 Camp Fire which makes flash floods more likely. Also, Redding, Oroville and Weaverville were recently found by the Environmental Protection Agency to have harmful chemicals in their water distribution systems, and nearly 50 maternity wards in California have shut down in the last decade including in Plumas and Shasta counties.