Levees / Illinois / 2605000007

Levee 50

Des Plaines, Cook County, Illinois. On the Des Plaines River. USACE records 6,659 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
6,659
USACE figure
Structures
1,366
in the leveed area
Levee length
1.0
miles, plus 0.46 of floodwall
Leveed area
1.04
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
2605000007
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Moderate
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
05/17/2022
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Illinois Department of Natural Resources, Illinois Department of Transportation, Union Pacific Railroad
Waterway
Des Plaines River
Segments
3
USACE district
Chicago
USACE division
Great Lakes and Ohio River Division
FEMA region
5
Congressional district
05, 09, 10
Consequence estimate
$1.46 billion
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.

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Where it is

Source: USACE National Levee Database, system 2605000007. 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.