Levees / Illinois / 2605000008

Levee 37

Mount Prospect, Cook County, Illinois. On the Des Plaines River, Des Plaines River. USACE records 5,603 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
5,603
USACE figure
Structures
622
in the leveed area
Levee length
0.2
miles, plus 1.70 of floodwall
Leveed area
0.41
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
2605000008
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
05/02/2019
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of Prospect Heights, Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Illinois Department of Transportation, Village of Mount Prospect
Waterway
Des Plaines River, Des Plaines River
Segments
3
USACE district
Chicago
USACE division
Great Lakes and Ohio River Division
FEMA region
5
Congressional district
09, 10
Consequence estimate
$522.9 million
Flood of record
04/13/2013

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.

02

Where it is

Illinois
All levee systems in this state
Cook County, IL
All levee systems in this county

Source: USACE National Levee Database, system 2605000008. 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.