Levees / New Mexico / 1605333009

Valencia-Rio Grande Right Bank System 2

Los Chaves, Valencia County, New Mexico. On the Rio Grande. USACE records 21,250 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemFederally built
People behind it
21,250
USACE figure
Structures
10,165
in the leveed area
Levee length
23.3
miles
Leveed area
33.58
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
1605333009
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
Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District
Waterway
Rio Grande
Segments
1
USACE district
Albuquerque
USACE division
South Pacific Division
FEMA region
6
Congressional district
01, 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 1605333009. 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.