Levees / Pennsylvania / 1305000634

Bernville Levee

Bernville, Berks County, Pennsylvania. On the Blue Marsh Lake. USACE records 307 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
307
USACE figure
Structures
135
in the leveed area
Levee length
0.9
miles
Leveed area
0.18
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
1305000634
System type
Dam-related System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Not Screened
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
Not published
Rehabilitation programme
NA
Responsible sponsor
USACE - Philadelphia District
Waterway
Blue Marsh Lake
Segments
1
USACE district
Philadelphia
USACE division
North Atlantic Division
FEMA region
3
Congressional district
09
Consequence estimate
$125.5 million
Flood of record
06/22/1972

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 1305000634. 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.