Levees / New Jersey / 4505000021

Raritan Bay & Sandy Hook Bay, Keansburg

Keansburg, Monmouth County, New Jersey. On the Raritan Bay. USACE records 17,023 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
17,023
USACE figure
Structures
6,099
in the leveed area
Levee length
5.3
miles, plus 0.28 of floodwall
Leveed area
2.55
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
4505000021
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Moderate
Inspection rating
U
Inspection date
05/20/2010
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection
Waterway
Raritan Bay
Segments
1
USACE district
New York
USACE division
North Atlantic Division
FEMA region
2
Congressional district
04, 06
Consequence estimate
$3.33 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 4505000021. 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.