Levees / California / 3805010034

Ballona Creek 1

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California. On the Ballona Creek. USACE records 5,307 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
5,307
USACE figure
Structures
1,484
in the leveed area
Levee length
2.8
miles, plus 0.31 of floodwall
Leveed area
0.92
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
3805010034
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Moderate
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
11/02/2010
Rehabilitation programme
Inactive
Responsible sponsor
Los Angeles County Department of Public Works
Waterway
Ballona Creek
Segments
1
USACE district
Los Angeles
USACE division
South Pacific Division
FEMA region
9
Congressional district
36
Consequence estimate
$713.0 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 3805010034. 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.