Levees / California / 5205000301

North Fork Feather River at Chester - east levee

Chester, Plumas County, California. On the Chester Flood Control Ditch. USACE records 613 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
613
USACE figure
Structures
344
in the leveed area
Levee length
1.9
miles
Leveed area
1.71
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
5205000301
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
NA
Inspection date
05/16/2022
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
CA Department of Water Resources, Central Valley Flood Protection Board, Plumas County Public Works
Waterway
Chester Flood Control Ditch
Segments
1
USACE district
Sacramento
USACE division
South Pacific Division
FEMA region
9
Congressional district
03
Consequence estimate
$75.9 million
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 5205000301. 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.