Levees / Louisiana / 4405000563

Wax Lake West Area - Hanson Canal Subarea

Franklin, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana. USACE records 491 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

No Regulatory Flood Hazard Information Published by FEMAFederally built
People behind it
491
USACE figure
Structures
289
in the leveed area
Levee length
0.0
miles, plus 0.04 of floodwall
Leveed area
5.06
square miles
01

The federal record

System ID
4405000563
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
No Regulatory Flood Hazard Information Published by FEMA
Screening rating (LSAC)
Not Screened
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
Not published
Rehabilitation programme
Not Enrolled
Responsible sponsor
Not published
Waterway
Not published
Segments
1
USACE district
New Orleans
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
6
Congressional district
03
Consequence estimate
$126.2 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.

02

Where it is

Louisiana
All levee systems in this state
St. Mary Parish, LA
All levee systems in this county

Source: USACE National Levee Database, system 4405000563. 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.