Levees / Illinois / 5605350001

Prairie du Pont / Fish Lake System

Dupo, St. Clair County, Illinois. On the Mississippi River. USACE records 6,052 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
6,052
USACE figure
Structures
2,626
in the leveed area
Levee length
15.4
miles, plus 0.07 of floodwall
Leveed area
20.16
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
5605350001
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Moderate
Inspection rating
U
Inspection date
02/13/2018
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Fish Lake Drainage & Levee District No. 8, Prairie Du Pont Levee & Sanitary District
Waterway
Mississippi River
Segments
2
USACE district
St. Louis
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
5
Congressional district
12, 13
Consequence estimate
$718.6 million
Flood of record
08/01/1993

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 5605350001. 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.