Levees / California / 3805010086

Ventura River/Canada de San Joaquin

San Buenaventura (Ventura), Ventura County, California. On the Ventura River. USACE records 9,408 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Provisionally Accredited Levee (PAL) SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
9,408
USACE figure
Structures
2,570
in the leveed area
Levee length
2.6
miles, plus 0.31 of floodwall
Leveed area
1.26
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
3805010086
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Provisionally Accredited Levee (PAL) System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
05/25/2010
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Ventura County Watershed Protection District
Waterway
Ventura River
Segments
1
USACE district
Los Angeles
USACE division
South Pacific Division
FEMA region
9
Congressional district
24
Consequence estimate
$2.52 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 3805010086. 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.