Levees / Missouri / 5605180001

Grand Tower / Degognia Levee System

Jackson County, Illinois. On the Mississippi River. USACE records 1,390 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

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People behind it
1,390
USACE figure
Structures
928
in the leveed area
Levee length
36.4
miles, plus 0.12 of floodwall
Leveed area
88.67
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
5605180001
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
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Screening rating (LSAC)
Moderate
Inspection rating
U
Inspection date
04/22/2019
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Degognia & Fountain Bluff Levee & Drainage District, Grand Tower Drainage & Levee District
Waterway
Mississippi River
Segments
2
USACE district
St. Louis
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
5, 7
Congressional district
08, 12
Consequence estimate
$121.8 million
Flood of record
08/07/1993

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 5605180001. 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.