Levees / Pennsylvania / 4805000003

Bethlehem

Bethlehem, Northampton County, Pennsylvania. On the Lehigh River. USACE records 293 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
293
USACE figure
Structures
75
in the leveed area
Levee length
1.3
miles, plus 0.15 of floodwall
Leveed area
0.28
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
4805000003
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
06/05/2025
Rehabilitation programme
Inactive
Responsible sponsor
City of Bethlehem, PA
Waterway
Lehigh River
Segments
1
USACE district
Philadelphia
USACE division
North Atlantic Division
FEMA region
3
Congressional district
07
Consequence estimate
$86.2 million
Flood of record
08/19/1955

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 4805000003. 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.