Levees / Pennsylvania / 4905000077

Washington, PA - Chartiers Creek

Washington, Washington County, Pennsylvania. On the Chartiers Creek. USACE records 110 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
110
USACE figure
Structures
13
in the leveed area
Levee length
0.2
miles
Leveed area
0.05
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
4905000077
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
U
Inspection date
04/22/2021
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Washington County Parks and Recreation, PA
Waterway
Chartiers Creek
Segments
1
USACE district
Pittsburgh
USACE division
Great Lakes and Ohio River Division
FEMA region
3
Congressional district
14
Consequence estimate
$111.1 million
Flood of record
09/02/1912

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 4905000077. 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.