Levees / Illinois / 5605270001

Mauvaise Terre Drainage & Levee System

Naples, Scott County, Illinois. On the Illinois River. USACE records 148 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
148
USACE figure
Structures
133
in the leveed area
Levee length
9.3
miles
Leveed area
8.56
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
5605270001
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Moderate
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
06/22/2022
Rehabilitation programme
Inactive
Responsible sponsor
Mauvaise Terre Drainage & Levee District
Waterway
Illinois River
Segments
1
USACE district
St. Louis
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
5
Congressional district
15
Consequence estimate
$17.1 million
Flood of record
05/26/1943

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 5605270001. 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.