Levees / New Jersey / 4505000007

Elizabeth, Elizabeth River Right Bank South

Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey. On the Elizabeth River. USACE records 3,090 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
3,090
USACE figure
Structures
443
in the leveed area
Levee length
1.3
miles, plus 0.02 of floodwall
Leveed area
0.25
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
4505000007
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
U
Inspection date
05/19/2010
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of Elizabeth
Waterway
Elizabeth River
Segments
1
USACE district
New York
USACE division
North Atlantic Division
FEMA region
2
Congressional district
08
Consequence estimate
$299.9 million
Flood of record
07/01/1897

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 4505000007. 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.