Levees / Illinois / 3905000041

Brookport Levee System

Brookport, Massac County, Illinois. On the Ohio River. USACE records 1,143 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
1,143
USACE figure
Structures
521
in the leveed area
Levee length
3.7
miles, plus 0.64 of floodwall
Leveed area
1.85
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
3905000041
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
High
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
02/12/2025
Rehabilitation programme
Inactive
Responsible sponsor
City of Brookport
Waterway
Ohio River
Segments
1
USACE district
Louisville
USACE division
Great Lakes and Ohio River Division
FEMA region
5
Congressional district
12
Consequence estimate
$130.7 million
Flood of record
02/13/1950

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 3905000041. 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.