Levees / Indiana / 3905000040

Levee Unit No. 5 Levee System

Owensville, Gibson County, Indiana. On the Black River, Patoka River, Wabash River. USACE records 761 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Non-Accredited Levee SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
761
USACE figure
Structures
326
in the leveed area
Levee length
41.7
miles
Leveed area
79.04
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
3905000040
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Non-Accredited Levee System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Moderate
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
08/15/2023
Rehabilitation programme
Inactive
Responsible sponsor
Wabash Levee Unit 5 Commission
Waterway
Black River, Patoka River, Wabash River
Segments
1
USACE district
Louisville
USACE division
Great Lakes and Ohio River Division
FEMA region
5
Congressional district
08
Consequence estimate
$126.8 million
Flood of record
01/13/2005

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 3905000040. 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.