Levees / Texas / 7405000000

Mission Levee System

Mission, Hidalgo County, Texas. On the Hackney Lake Inlet, Lower Rio Grande, Rio Grande Floodway. USACE records 66,766 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemFederally built
People behind it
66,766
USACE figure
Structures
17,970
in the leveed area
Levee length
22.8
miles
Leveed area
47.44
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
7405000000
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Moderate
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
09/26/2017
Rehabilitation programme
Not Enrolled
Responsible sponsor
International Boundary and Water Commission
Waterway
Hackney Lake Inlet, Lower Rio Grande, Rio Grande Floodway
Segments
1
USACE district
Galveston
USACE division
Southwestern Division
FEMA region
6
Congressional district
15, 34
Consequence estimate
$8.12 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 7405000000. 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.