Levees / California / 1905012051

Santa Clara County Levee 61

San Jose, Santa Clara County, California. On the Alamitos Creek. USACE records 2,497 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemFederally built
People behind it
2,497
USACE figure
Structures
450
in the leveed area
Levee length
1.6
miles, plus 0.03 of floodwall
Leveed area
0.30
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
1905012051
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Not Screened
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
Not published
Rehabilitation programme
Not Enrolled
Responsible sponsor
Santa Clara Valley Water District (SCVWD)
Waterway
Alamitos Creek
Segments
1
USACE district
Los Angeles, San Francisco
USACE division
South Pacific Division
FEMA region
9
Congressional district
19
Consequence estimate
$690.4 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 1905012051. 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.