Levees / Ohio / 3305000022

Portsmoth-New Boston, OH, LPP

Portsmouth, Scioto County, Ohio. On the Ohio River, Scioto River. USACE records 11,062 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
11,062
USACE figure
Structures
4,717
in the leveed area
Levee length
3.8
miles, plus 3.98 of floodwall
Leveed area
2.99
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
3305000022
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
High
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
03/08/2010
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of Portsmouth, Village of New Boston
Waterway
Ohio River, Scioto River
Segments
2
USACE district
Huntington
USACE division
Great Lakes and Ohio River Division
FEMA region
5
Congressional district
02
Consequence estimate
$2.65 billion
Flood of record
01/27/1937

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 3305000022. 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.