Levees / Utah / 5205020211

Surplus Canal left bank - Salt Lake City, UT

Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah. On the Surplus Canal. USACE records 22,919 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
22,919
USACE figure
Structures
667
in the leveed area
Levee length
9.7
miles
Leveed area
5.23
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
5205020211
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Moderate
Inspection rating
U
Inspection date
10/01/2019
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Salt Lake County Public Works
Waterway
Surplus Canal
Segments
3
USACE district
Sacramento
USACE division
South Pacific Division
FEMA region
8
Congressional district
02
Consequence estimate
$4.25 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 5205020211. 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.