The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) gave the Sacramento Natomas levees 100-year flood protection meaning the area has one chance in one hundred of flooding in any given year. If Natomas loses its 100-year designation, “flood insurance would become mandatory for people with federally insured mortgages, insurance rates would increase, and building restrictions could be implemented.”
Regardless of FEMA’s response the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency “has already begun a $370 million project to upgrade the system to 200-year flood protection. The project should begin next year and take five years to complete.
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