Levees / Iowa / 4705000037

L-627 MO River LB & Indian Creek RB

Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie County, Iowa. On the Missouri River. USACE records 29,357 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
29,357
USACE figure
Structures
10,580
in the leveed area
Levee length
14.9
miles
Leveed area
15.09
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
4705000037
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Moderate
Inspection rating
U
Inspection date
05/18/2021
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of Council Bluffs
Waterway
Missouri River
Segments
1
USACE district
Omaha
USACE division
Northwestern Division
FEMA region
7
Congressional district
04
Consequence estimate
$3.08 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 4705000037. 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.