Levees / California / 5205000422

Chico Creek-Mud Creek - Units 2 south, 4, and 5

Chico, Butte County, California. On the Big Chico Diversion Channel, Mud Creek, Sycamore Creek, Sycamore Creek, Sycamore Trib 1. USACE records 59,956 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Provisionally Accredited Levee (PAL) SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
59,956
USACE figure
Structures
26,914
in the leveed area
Levee length
11.5
miles
Leveed area
21.46
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
5205000422
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Provisionally Accredited Levee (PAL) System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
U
Inspection date
12/14/2010
Rehabilitation programme
Inactive
Responsible sponsor
Butte County Public Works, CA Department of Water Resources, Central Valley Flood Protection Board
Waterway
Big Chico Diversion Channel, Mud Creek, Sycamore Creek, Sycamore Creek, Sycamore Trib 1
Segments
4
USACE district
Sacramento
USACE division
South Pacific Division
FEMA region
9
Congressional district
01
Consequence estimate
$8.80 billion
Flood of record
03/03/1974

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 5205000422. 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.