Levees / Colorado / 2205000002

Alamosa Levees, Rio Grande, Right Levee

Alamosa, Alamosa County, Colorado. On the Rio Grande. USACE records 8,244 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
8,244
USACE figure
Structures
3,695
in the leveed area
Levee length
4.1
miles, plus 0.01 of floodwall
Leveed area
3.66
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
2205000002
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Moderate
Inspection rating
U
Inspection date
04/04/2011
Rehabilitation programme
Inactive
Responsible sponsor
City of Alamosa
Waterway
Rio Grande
Segments
1
USACE district
Albuquerque
USACE division
South Pacific Division
FEMA region
8
Congressional district
03
Consequence estimate
$1.45 billion
Flood of record
Not published

What this page does not tell you

It does not say whether any particular address is protected. A FEMA accreditation status describes this system measured against a design flood event, and USACE states that the database may not represent the totality of levees in the United States. If you need to know what applies to a specific property, your local floodplain administrator holds that answer. How to read an accreditation status.

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Where it is

Source: USACE National Levee Database, system 2205000002. Refreshed 2026-09-10. Values are reproduced as published. USACE updates the database irregularly and without a change feed, so the refresh date above is the age of what you are reading.