Levees / Louisiana / 4405000517

Wax Lake West Area

Franklin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. On the Atchafalaya River. USACE records 16,248 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
16,248
USACE figure
Structures
7,907
in the leveed area
Levee length
53.9
miles, plus 2.89 of floodwall
Leveed area
128.90
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
4405000517
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Moderate
Inspection rating
U
Inspection date
04/14/2011
Rehabilitation programme
NA
Responsible sponsor
St. Mary Levee District, USACE - New Orleans District
Waterway
Atchafalaya River
Segments
2
USACE district
New Orleans
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
6
Congressional district
03
Consequence estimate
$1.26 billion
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 4405000517. 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.