Levees / Illinois / 5605300001

MESD / Chain of Rocks East Levee System

Madison, Madison County, Illinois. On the Mississippi River. USACE records 126,735 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
126,735
USACE figure
Structures
46,922
in the leveed area
Levee length
31.8
miles, plus 3.15 of floodwall
Leveed area
134.34
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
5605300001
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
High
Inspection rating
U
Inspection date
12/09/2019
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Metro East Sanitary District, USACE - St Louis District
Waterway
Mississippi River
Segments
2
USACE district
St. Louis
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
5
Congressional district
12, 13
Consequence estimate
$8.68 billion
Flood of record
08/01/1993

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 5605300001. 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.