Levees / Rhode Island / 4305000024

Lower Woonsocket-Blackstone Riv RB

Woonsocket, Providence County, Rhode Island. On the Blackstone River. USACE records 1,550 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
1,550
USACE figure
Structures
3
in the leveed area
Levee length
0.6
miles, plus 0.02 of floodwall
Leveed area
0.07
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
4305000024
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
05/18/2011
Rehabilitation programme
Not Eligible
Responsible sponsor
USACE - New England District
Waterway
Blackstone River
Segments
1
USACE district
New England
USACE division
North Atlantic Division
FEMA region
1
Congressional district
01
Consequence estimate
$75.0 million
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 4305000024. 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.