Levees / South Dakota / 4705000109

Sioux Falls - Big Sioux RB

Sioux Falls, Minnehaha County, South Dakota. On the Big Sioux River. USACE records 326 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
326
USACE figure
Structures
75
in the leveed area
Levee length
1.6
miles
Leveed area
0.24
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
4705000109
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
U
Inspection date
09/20/2021
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of Sioux Falls
Waterway
Big Sioux River
Segments
1
USACE district
Omaha
USACE division
Northwestern Division
FEMA region
8
Congressional district
00
Consequence estimate
$54.9 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.

02

Where it is

Source: USACE National Levee Database, system 4705000109. 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.