Levees / California / 5205000071

RD 0800 - Byron Tract

Discovery Bay, Contra Costa County, California. On the Discovery Bay, Italian Slough, Old River, Vasco Hills runoff, Vasco Hills runoff drain. USACE records 3,070 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemFederally built
People behind it
3,070
USACE figure
Structures
1,637
in the leveed area
Levee length
18.7
miles, plus 0.25 of floodwall
Leveed area
8.93
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
5205000071
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Not Screened
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
09/26/2011
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
RD 0800 - Byron Tract, Unknown Levee Owner
Waterway
Discovery Bay, Italian Slough, Old River, Vasco Hills runoff, Vasco Hills runoff drain
Segments
6
USACE district
Sacramento
USACE division
South Pacific Division
FEMA region
9
Congressional district
09, 10
Consequence estimate
$1.27 billion
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 5205000071. 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.