Levees / Kentucky / 3905560001

Willowbrook Levee System

Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance), Jefferson County, Kentucky. On the Buechel Branch. USACE records 290 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
290
USACE figure
Structures
8
in the leveed area
Levee length
0.1
miles, plus 0.26 of floodwall
Leveed area
0.01
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
3905560001
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
06/20/2024
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Louisville Jefferson MSD
Waterway
Buechel Branch
Segments
1
USACE district
Louisville
USACE division
Great Lakes and Ohio River Division
FEMA region
4
Congressional district
03
Consequence estimate
$31.3 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 3905560001. 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.