Levees / New Jersey / 4505000027

Rahway, Rahway River South Branch RB

Rahway, Union County, New Jersey. On the Rahway River. USACE records 1,447 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
1,447
USACE figure
Structures
430
in the leveed area
Levee length
0.9
miles, plus 0.05 of floodwall
Leveed area
0.11
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
4505000027
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
06/03/2010
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of Rahway
Waterway
Rahway River
Segments
1
USACE district
New York
USACE division
North Atlantic Division
FEMA region
2
Congressional district
07
Consequence estimate
$458.6 million
Flood of record
10/01/1903

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 4505000027. 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.