Levees / Louisiana / 5905000036

Bayou Nicholas - Coushatta, La

Coushatta, Red River Parish, Louisiana. USACE records 347 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
347
USACE figure
Structures
139
in the leveed area
Levee length
1.1
miles
Leveed area
0.43
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
5905000036
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
U
Inspection date
03/16/2015
Rehabilitation programme
Inactive
Responsible sponsor
Red River Levee And Drainage District
Waterway
Not published
Segments
1
USACE district
Vicksburg
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
6
Congressional district
04
Consequence estimate
$36.1 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.

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Where it is

Source: USACE National Levee Database, system 5905000036. 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.