Levees / New York / 4905000073

Bolivar, NY

Bolivar, Allegany County, New York. On the Root Creek. USACE records 272 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
272
USACE figure
Structures
117
in the leveed area
Levee length
0.3
miles
Leveed area
0.07
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
4905000073
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
U
Inspection date
05/20/2019
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Bolivar, NYSDEC Region 8 - Division of Water - Flood Protection & Dam Safety
Waterway
Root Creek
Segments
1
USACE district
Pittsburgh
USACE division
Great Lakes and Ohio River Division
FEMA region
2
Congressional district
23
Consequence estimate
$48.7 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 4905000073. 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.