Levees / Pennsylvania / 4805000005

Chester

Chester, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. On the Chester River. USACE records 18 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
18
USACE figure
Structures
7
in the leveed area
Levee length
0.5
miles, plus 0.14 of floodwall
Leveed area
0.04
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
4805000005
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
U
Inspection date
09/08/2022
Rehabilitation programme
Inactive
Responsible sponsor
City of Chester, PA
Waterway
Chester River
Segments
1
USACE district
Philadelphia
USACE division
North Atlantic Division
FEMA region
3
Congressional district
05
Consequence estimate
$4.5 million
Flood of record
11/25/1950

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 4805000005. 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.