If this is a wet winter as expected, Napa will be as ready as it can be, the Public Works Department told the City Council on Tuesday.

Crews have cleaned drains and ditches and stocked 40,000 sandbags for emergency distribution, said Jason Holley, a senior civil engineer.

Sandbags will continue to be distributed the first Saturday of every month from the Corporation Yard on Jackson Street so residents and businesses can take precautionary measures, he said.

The next sandbag distribution will be Dec. 5 in the morning. At the giveaway in early November, residents filled 700 sandbags, Holley said

In a flood emergency, the city would set up special sandbag sites at other locations.

The Fire Department will walk the Napa Creek neighborhood in early December to hand out flyers about what to do in a flood emergency, Fire Chief Tim Borman said.

Because of past steps to reduce the city’s flood risk, property owners who get federally flood insurance are likely to get a 10 percent rate reduction in 2010, Holley said.

Unfortunately, federal rates are likely to go up 10 percent nationally, which would have the effect of leaving the local rate at the current level, he said.

The federal flood control project, which is about half finished, has reduced the flood risk to downtown and other areas farther south.