Levees / Washington / 5005000027

Lexington

West Side Highway, Cowlitz County, Washington. On the Cowlitz River. USACE records 2,512 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Provisionally Accredited Levee (PAL) SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
2,512
USACE figure
Structures
958
in the leveed area
Levee length
2.6
miles
Leveed area
0.99
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
5005000027
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Provisionally Accredited Levee (PAL) System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Moderate
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
09/26/2023
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Lexington
Waterway
Cowlitz River
Segments
1
USACE district
Portland
USACE division
Northwestern Division
FEMA region
10
Congressional district
03
Consequence estimate
$215.2 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 5005000027. 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.