Levees / Indiana / 2605000003

Gary

Gary, Lake County, Indiana. On the Little Calumet River. USACE records 10,503 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
10,503
USACE figure
Structures
3,586
in the leveed area
Levee length
13.0
miles, plus 1.23 of floodwall
Leveed area
4.74
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
2605000003
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Moderate
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
04/26/2021
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Indiana Department of Transportation, Little Calumet River Basin Development Commission
Waterway
Little Calumet River
Segments
6
USACE district
Chicago
USACE division
Great Lakes and Ohio River Division
FEMA region
5
Congressional district
01
Consequence estimate
$1.25 billion
Flood of record
09/15/2008

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 2605000003. 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.