Levees / Texas / 1605571001

El Paso-Rio Grande System

San Elizario, El Paso County, Texas. On the Rio Grande. USACE records 159,434 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemFederally built
People behind it
159,434
USACE figure
Structures
54,165
in the leveed area
Levee length
44.4
miles
Leveed area
115.85
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
1605571001
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Not Screened
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
Not published
Rehabilitation programme
Not Enrolled
Responsible sponsor
International Boundary and Water Commission
Waterway
Rio Grande
Segments
1
USACE district
Albuquerque
USACE division
South Pacific Division
FEMA region
6
Congressional district
16, 23
Consequence estimate
$24.55 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 1605571001. 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.