Levees / Indiana / 2605000002

Marshalltown

Gary, Lake County, Indiana. On the Little Calumet River. USACE records 518 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
518
USACE figure
Structures
376
in the leveed area
Levee length
0.9
miles
Leveed area
0.11
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
2605000002
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
Not published
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Little Calumet River Basin Development Commission
Waterway
Little Calumet River
Segments
1
USACE district
Chicago
USACE division
Great Lakes and Ohio River Division
FEMA region
5
Congressional district
01
Consequence estimate
$43.0 million
Flood of record
09/15/2008

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 2605000002. 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.