Levees / Pennsylvania / 4805000002

Jordan Creek

Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. USACE records 116 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemFederally built
People behind it
116
USACE figure
Structures
10
in the leveed area
Levee length
n/a
miles, plus 0.13 of floodwall
Leveed area
0.01
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
4805000002
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Not Screened
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
08/09/2022
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
City of Allentown, PA
Waterway
Not published
Segments
2
USACE district
Philadelphia
USACE division
North Atlantic Division
FEMA region
3
Congressional district
07
Consequence estimate
$90.7 million
Flood of record
06/23/1972

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

Pennsylvania
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Lehigh County, PA
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Source: USACE National Levee Database, system 4805000002. 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.