Levees / North Dakota / 5705000036

Souris River - Sawyer - East

Sawyer, Ward County, North Dakota. On the Souris River. USACE records 35 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
35
USACE figure
Structures
21
in the leveed area
Levee length
0.8
miles
Leveed area
0.07
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
5705000036
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
07/14/2010
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Souris River Joint Water Resource Board
Waterway
Souris River
Segments
1
USACE district
St. Paul
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
8
Congressional district
00
Consequence estimate
$3.0 million
Flood of record
06/26/2011

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 5705000036. 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.