The Great Flood of 1861-62, & the need for 200-year flood protection

Wetherbee Lake residents southwest of Manteca toured their flooded properties with a deputy escort in the aftermath of the 1992 flood. - photo by Bulletin file photo

wyatt art.JPG — Wetherbee Lake residents southwest of Manteca toured their flooded properties with a deputy escort in the aftermath of the 1992 flood. - photo by Bulletin file photo

Nature, left on its own, would assure virtually every square — of the heart of the Central Valley — San Joaquin, Sacramento, and Stanislaus counties and beyond — would be in a 200-year flood plain.

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