Levees / Pennsylvania / 4805000012

Hawley

Hawley, Wayne County, Pennsylvania. On the Lackawaxen River. USACE records 235 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemFederally built
People behind it
235
USACE figure
Structures
119
in the leveed area
Levee length
0.8
miles, plus 0.06 of floodwall
Leveed area
0.07
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
4805000012
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
07/25/2023
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Hawley Borough, Wayne County, PA
Waterway
Lackawaxen River
Segments
1
USACE district
Philadelphia
USACE division
North Atlantic Division
FEMA region
3
Congressional district
08
Consequence estimate
$30.5 million
Flood of record
06/28/2006

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 4805000012. 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.