Levees / Missouri / 5605880001

Sainte Genevieve No. 3 Levee System

Ste. Genevieve, Ste. Genevieve County, Missouri. On the Mississippi River. USACE records 814 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
814
USACE figure
Structures
321
in the leveed area
Levee length
3.5
miles, plus 0.04 of floodwall
Leveed area
1.51
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
5605880001
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
12/07/2021
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Ste. Genevieve County Levee District No. 3
Waterway
Mississippi River
Segments
1
USACE district
St. Louis
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
7
Congressional district
08
Consequence estimate
$37.8 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 5605880001. 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.