Levees / Louisiana / 4405000522

Krotz Springs Ring Area

Krotz Springs, St. Landry Parish, Louisiana. On the Atchafalaya River. USACE records 656 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
656
USACE figure
Structures
361
in the leveed area
Levee length
4.3
miles
Leveed area
1.05
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
4405000522
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
M
Inspection date
01/10/2011
Rehabilitation programme
NA
Responsible sponsor
Red River, Atchafalaya, and Bayou Boeuf Levee District, USACE - New Orleans District, Union Pacific Railway
Waterway
Atchafalaya River
Segments
2
USACE district
New Orleans
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
6
Congressional district
06
Consequence estimate
$58.0 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

Source: USACE National Levee Database, system 4405000522. 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.