Levees / Kansas / 3605000209

Ottawa KS Left Bank

Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansas. On the Marais Des Cygnes River. USACE records 164 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
164
USACE figure
Structures
90
in the leveed area
Levee length
1.2
miles, plus 0.12 of floodwall
Leveed area
0.27
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
3605000209
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
06/07/2023
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of Ottawa, KS
Waterway
Marais Des Cygnes River
Segments
1
USACE district
Kansas City
USACE division
Northwestern Division
FEMA region
7
Congressional district
03
Consequence estimate
$37.0 million
Flood of record
05/15/1993

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 3605000209. 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.