Levees / Oregon / 5005000002

Multnomah County Drainage District No. 1 - West

Portland, Multnomah County, Oregon. On the Columbia. USACE records 31,764 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
31,764
USACE figure
Structures
1,430
in the leveed area
Levee length
9.8
miles
Leveed area
9.11
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
5005000002
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Moderate
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
12/07/2022
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Urban Flood Safety and Water Quality District
Waterway
Columbia
Segments
1
USACE district
Portland
USACE division
Northwestern Division
FEMA region
10
Congressional district
03
Consequence estimate
$8.88 billion
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 5005000002. 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.