Levees / California / 1905003107

San Mateo County Levee 56

Redwood City, San Mateo County, California. On the Belmont Slough; Bay Slough; Steinberger Slough. USACE records 23,074 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemFederally built
People behind it
23,074
USACE figure
Structures
3,201
in the leveed area
Levee length
8.0
miles, plus 0.30 of floodwall
Leveed area
2.53
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
1905003107
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Not Screened
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
Not published
Rehabilitation programme
Not Enrolled
Responsible sponsor
City of Redwood, CA
Waterway
Belmont Slough; Bay Slough; Steinberger Slough
Segments
1
USACE district
San Francisco
USACE division
South Pacific Division
FEMA region
9
Congressional district
15
Consequence estimate
$8.73 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 1905003107. 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.