Two community meetings are scheduled this week to educate Natomas residents about upcoming flood insurance requirements.
Because that area is at higher risk of flood than previously thought, federal officials are expected on Dec. 8 to remap the Natomas basin as a floodplain.
Both meetings, which are hosted by the city of Sacramento and Sacramento County, will cover the upcoming remapping and how it will affect property owners, development and flood insurance requirements. When the remapping occurs, Natomas property owners with federally backed mortgages will be required to buy flood insurance, according to a release from the city of Sacramento.
Flood insurance will be required until local officials strengthen surrounding levees to provide 100-year flood projection, or the ability to withstand a flood that has a 1 percent chance of striking in any given year.
The area is expected to be brought back to 100-year flood protection when upgrades on 25 miles of levees around Natomas are completed. The upgrade is expected to be finished by 2011.
The meetings are:
• 6 to 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday at the South Natomas Community Center, 2921 Truxel Road, Sacramento.
• 6 to 8:30 p.m. on Nov. 20 at Inderkum High School, 2500 New Market Dr., Sacramento.
Call The Bee's Sandy Louey, (916) 321-1088.
What You Should Know About Comments on Sacbee.com
Sacbee.com is happy to provide a forum for reader interaction, discussion, feedback and reaction to our stories. However, we reserve the right to delete inappropriate comments or ban users who can't play nice. (See our full terms of service here.)
Here are some rules of the road:
• Keep your comments civil. Don't insult one another or the subjects of our articles. If you think a comment violates our guidelines click the "report abuse" button to notify the moderators. Responding to the comment will only encourage bad behavior.
• Don't use profanities, vulgarities or hate speech. This is a general interest news site. Sometimes, there are children present. Don't say anything in a way you wouldn't want your own child to hear.
• Do not attack other users; focus your comments on issues, not individuals.
• Stay on topic. Only post comments relevant to the article at hand. If you want to discuss an issue with a specific user, click on his profile name and send him a direct message.
• Do not copy and paste outside material into the comment box.
• Don't repeat the same comment over and over. We heard you the first time.
• Do not use the commenting system for advertising. That's spam and it isn't allowed.
• Don't use all capital letters. That's akin to yelling and not appreciated by the audience.
You should also know that The Sacramento Bee does not screen comments before they are posted. You are more likely to see inappropriate comments before our staff does, so we ask that you click the "report abuse" button to submit those comments for moderator review. You also may notify us via email at feedback@sacbee.com. Note the headline on which the comment is made and tell us the profile name of the user who made the comment. Remember, comment moderation is subjective. You may find some material objectionable that we won't and vice versa.
If you submit a comment, the user name of your account will appear along with it. Users cannot remove their own comments once they have submitted them, but you may ask our staff to retract one of your comments by sending an email to feedback@sacbee.com. Again, make sure you note the headline on which the comment is made and tell us your profile name.
About Comments
Reader comments on Sacbee.com are the opinions of the writer, not The Sacramento Bee. If you see an objectionable comment, click the "report abuse" button below it. We will delete comments containing inappropriate links, obscenities, hate speech, and personal attacks. Flagrant or repeat violators will be banned. See more about comments here.