Flooding at the Olema Campground caused by sediment buildup in a creek bordering the property and two drainage ditches running through it has worsened in recent years, prompting revenue losses from major closures and fears from management that, without county and federal assistance, the situation may never improve. “[Flooding] is a lot worse than what it used to be,” said Ed Strausser, the campground’s manager. Last month, the Light reported that around 80 of the 185 sites were closed from flooding during the booked Valentine’s Day and President’s Day weekend—an increasingly common occurrence following heavy rains. Mr. Strausser believes that since he began working at the campground in 2002, as much as six feet of sediment has built up in the creek, which spills over to combine with floodwaters from the ditches and deposits several feet of muddy water on much of the grounds, particularly on the popular RV sites. Mr. Strausser said the campground, which has been in operation since 1969, is hamstrung by cost-prohibitive county permits to dredge out the ditches. While repair and maintenance work are generally exempt from county permits, work in environmentally sensitive areas like the ditches—which feed into Olema Creek, a tributary of Lagunitas Creek and a habitat area for endangered red-legged frogs dwell—can incur nearly $17,000 just for an initial biological study. Nor does Mr. Strausser believe the Point Reyes National Seashore—which owns the land on the creek’s opposite bank—would lend any help. According to spokesman  John Dell’Osso, the seashore manages the creek in coordination with other state and federal agencies, and undertaking any dredging operation would trigger long and expensive environmental review and permit processes. Mr. Dell’Osso predicted that the campground would simply revert back to marshland over time. “There’s nothing we can do,” he said. “The building up of sediment in the creek is just something that’s going to happen. That’s just a natural process.” The Olema Campground marks the only location in West Marin available to RV campers other than Lawson’s Landing in Dillon Beach and Samuel P. Taylor State Park. In 2007, then owner Jay Bronson was caught dredging the creek bed and removing trees nearby without proper permitting to alleviate flooding; it is unclear whether he was formally punished by the county. In 2012, Novato-based trial lawyer Alan Brayton took possession of the property after the owner defaulted on a loan. Mr. Dell’Osso said the camp’s current ownership has not contacted the seashore to discuss solutions to creek flooding.