Levees / Iowa / 5105020001

Bettendorf, IA

Bettendorf, Scott County, Iowa. On the Mississippi River, Mississippi River and Duck Creek. USACE records 1,949 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
1,949
USACE figure
Structures
173
in the leveed area
Levee length
2.5
miles, plus 0.41 of floodwall
Leveed area
0.70
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
5105020001
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
11/05/2020
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of Bettendorf, IA
Waterway
Mississippi River, Mississippi River and Duck Creek
Segments
1
USACE district
Rock Island
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
7
Congressional district
01
Consequence estimate
$337.2 million
Flood of record
04/24/2001

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 5105020001. 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.