Levees / California / 1905012055

Santa Clara County Levee 35

Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, California. On the Calabazas Creek; Saratoga Creek; San Tomas Aquinas Creek. USACE records 27,555 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemFederally built
People behind it
27,555
USACE figure
Structures
1,051
in the leveed area
Levee length
3.5
miles, plus 2.17 of floodwall
Leveed area
1.95
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
1905012055
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
Santa Clara Valley Water District (SCVWD)
Waterway
Calabazas Creek; Saratoga Creek; San Tomas Aquinas Creek
Segments
1
USACE district
San Francisco
USACE division
South Pacific Division
FEMA region
9
Congressional district
17
Consequence estimate
$9.99 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 1905012055. 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.