Levees / Tennessee / 1405000241

Hamilton Levee

Chattanooga, Hamilton County, Tennessee. On the South Chickamauga Creek. USACE records 5,150 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Provisionally Accredited Levee (PAL) SystemFederally built
People behind it
5,150
USACE figure
Structures
1,768
in the leveed area
Levee length
3.3
miles
Leveed area
2.09
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
1405000241
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Provisionally Accredited Levee (PAL) System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Not Screened
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
Not published
Rehabilitation programme
Not Enrolled
Responsible sponsor
Hamilton County
Waterway
South Chickamauga Creek
Segments
2
USACE district
Nashville
USACE division
Great Lakes and Ohio River Division
FEMA region
4
Congressional district
03
Consequence estimate
$1.06 billion
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 1405000241. 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.