Levees / Pennsylvania / 4905000005

Etna, PA

Etna, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. On the West Little Pine Creek. USACE records 615 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Provisionally Accredited Levee (PAL) SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
615
USACE figure
Structures
308
in the leveed area
Levee length
0.1
miles, plus 0.31 of floodwall
Leveed area
0.05
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
4905000005
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Provisionally Accredited Levee (PAL) System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
10/15/2020
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Borough of Etna, PA
Waterway
West Little Pine Creek
Segments
1
USACE district
Pittsburgh
USACE division
Great Lakes and Ohio River Division
FEMA region
3
Congressional district
17
Consequence estimate
$90.7 million
Flood of record
06/30/1974

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 4905000005. 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.