Levees / Pennsylvania / 2305230001

Olyphant

Olyphant, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. On the Lackawanna River. USACE records 1,832 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
1,832
USACE figure
Structures
649
in the leveed area
Levee length
0.7
miles, plus 0.21 of floodwall
Leveed area
0.26
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
2305230001
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
08/23/2021
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Borough of Olyphant, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
Waterway
Lackawanna River
Segments
2
USACE district
Baltimore
USACE division
North Atlantic Division
FEMA region
3
Congressional district
08
Consequence estimate
$282.8 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

Pennsylvania
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Lackawanna County, PA
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Source: USACE National Levee Database, system 2305230001. 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.