Levees / Illinois / 5605920001

Chouteau Island / Chain of Rocks West Levee System

Madison, Madison County, Illinois. On the Mississippi River. USACE records 150 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
150
USACE figure
Structures
4
in the leveed area
Levee length
13.1
miles
Leveed area
3.12
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
5605920001
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
Not published
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Chouteau Island Levee District, USACE - St Louis District
Waterway
Mississippi River
Segments
2
USACE district
St. Louis
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
5
Congressional district
13
Consequence estimate
$8.2 million
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 5605920001. 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.