Levees / Delaware / 1305000372

New Castle - Buttonwood

New Castle, New Castle County, Delaware. On the Delaware River. USACE records 146 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemFederally built
People behind it
146
USACE figure
Structures
58
in the leveed area
Levee length
0.3
miles
Leveed area
0.21
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
1305000372
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Not Screened
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
07/20/2022
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of New Castle, DE
Waterway
Delaware River
Segments
1
USACE district
Philadelphia
USACE division
North Atlantic Division
FEMA region
3
Congressional district
00
Consequence estimate
$23.8 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 1305000372. 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.