Levees / Iowa / 5105940004

Ottumwa, IA - West End Upper

Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa. On the Des Moines River. USACE records 98 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemFederally built
People behind it
98
USACE figure
Structures
46
in the leveed area
Levee length
0.6
miles
Leveed area
0.04
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
5105940004
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
11/13/2017
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of Ottumwa
Waterway
Des Moines River
Segments
1
USACE district
Rock Island
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
7
Congressional district
03
Consequence estimate
$9.8 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 5105940004. 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.