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By allowing ads to appear on this site, you support the local businesses who, in turn, support great journalism. MANTECA PLANS KEY ROAD ON ‘WRONG’ SIDE OF DRY LEEVEE Raymus Parkway being designed as Trojan horse for future conversion to expressway Raymus Parkway could go through the area between Peach Avenue (shown) and Fig Avenue east of Airport Way south of Manteca.
Apparently Manteca plans to build what could be a growth-inducing “parkway” in a 100-year floodplain where levees have failed 11 times since 1929.
That means if the levees fail along the Stanislaus and San Joaquin rivers south of Manteca as they have an average of once every 8½ years it would be at risk of being covered by floodwaters. The area in question was underwater in the 1997 floods.