Levees / Kansas / 5805000027

WVC Big Slough Levee D/WVC Riverside Levee P, R, S

Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas. On the Arkansas River, Big Slough, Cowskin Creek, Middle Fork Chisholm Creek. USACE records 188,654 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
188,654
USACE figure
Structures
59,577
in the leveed area
Levee length
29.1
miles, plus 0.18 of floodwall
Leveed area
58.56
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
5805000027
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
10/17/2016
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of Wichita, KS
Waterway
Arkansas River, Big Slough, Cowskin Creek, Middle Fork Chisholm Creek
Segments
4
USACE district
Tulsa
USACE division
Southwestern Division
FEMA region
7
Congressional district
04
Consequence estimate
$30.88 billion
Flood of record
10/31/1979

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 5805000027. 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.