Levees / Michigan / 340005099004

Detroit Beach Protection System

Detroit Beach, Monroe County, Michigan. On the Lake Erie, Sandy Creek. USACE records 1,459 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee System
People behind it
1,459
USACE figure
Structures
673
in the leveed area
Levee length
1.1
miles, plus 0.74 of floodwall
Leveed area
0.33
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
340005099004
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Not Screened
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
Not published
Rehabilitation programme
Not Enrolled
Responsible sponsor
Frenchtown Township
Waterway
Lake Erie, Sandy Creek
Segments
1
USACE district
Detroit
USACE division
Great Lakes and Ohio River Division
FEMA region
5
Congressional district
05
Consequence estimate
$220.2 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 340005099004. 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.