The State - News from Dec. 8, 1986

“A substantial amount” of the city and county of Sacramento would be flooded in the event of a storm as fierce as that expected every 100 years, according to a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers study. Joseph Countryman, chief of the corps’ design branch, said the city’s levee system was built to handle only about half the water from a 100-year storm. That big a storm has not struck the area since record keeping began in 1904. Heavy rainfall last February, however, caused numerous levee breaks north of Sacramento.