Levees / Iowa / 5105550006

West Des Moines, IA and Des Moines, IA

West Des Moines, Polk County, Iowa. On the Raccoon River, Walnut Creek. USACE records 3,053 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
3,053
USACE figure
Structures
1,360
in the leveed area
Levee length
3.7
miles, plus 0.43 of floodwall
Leveed area
1.34
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
5105550006
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
11/25/2014
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of Des Moines, IA, City of West Des Moines, IA
Waterway
Raccoon River, Walnut Creek
Segments
2
USACE district
Rock Island
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
7
Congressional district
03
Consequence estimate
$550.1 million
Flood of record
05/10/1986

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 5105550006. 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.