Sacramento's flood protection projects are falling behind and that could have triggered a new building ban due to delays.

A similar moratorium was in effect for seven years up until 2015. Now there's been a last-minute effort to extend the Dec. 31 deadline.

Homes in Sacramento's Natomas neighborhood could be under 16 feet of water if the river levee ever broke.

"There's a lot of different flood threats that could possibly happen in the Sacramento region; we're not called the river city for no reason," said Sean de Guzman, the flood operations manager at the California Department of Water Resources.

That's why, back in 2007, state lawmakers set a deadline requiring Sacramento to have a 200-year level of flood protection by the end of this year.

"We have really tried to hold everybo

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