Levees / California / 5305000042

Uvas Creek - LB

Gilroy, Santa Clara County, California. On the Uvas Creek. USACE records 14,920 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
14,920
USACE figure
Structures
3,941
in the leveed area
Levee length
2.2
miles
Leveed area
3.93
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
5305000042
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
U
Inspection date
08/21/2019
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Santa Clara Valley Water District (SCVWD)
Waterway
Uvas Creek
Segments
1
USACE district
San Francisco
USACE division
South Pacific Division
FEMA region
9
Congressional district
18
Consequence estimate
$3.35 billion
Flood of record
02/17/1986

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 5305000042. 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.