Levees / Indiana / 3905000021

West Terre Haute Levee System

West Terre Haute, Vigo County, Indiana. On the Sugar Creek, Wabash River. USACE records 2,393 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Provisionally Accredited Levee (PAL) SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
2,393
USACE figure
Structures
1,030
in the leveed area
Levee length
2.6
miles, plus 0.17 of floodwall
Leveed area
0.69
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
3905000021
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Provisionally Accredited Levee (PAL) System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
08/16/2024
Rehabilitation programme
Inactive
Responsible sponsor
West Vigo Levee Association
Waterway
Sugar Creek, Wabash River
Segments
1
USACE district
Louisville
USACE division
Great Lakes and Ohio River Division
FEMA region
5
Congressional district
08
Consequence estimate
$495.2 million
Flood of record
01/16/2005

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 3905000021. 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.