Levees / Louisiana / 4405000561

New Orleans East Bank Forty Arpent Subarea

Violet, St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana. On the Forty Arpent Canal. USACE records 52,353 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Provisionally Accredited Levee (PAL) SystemFederally built
People behind it
52,353
USACE figure
Structures
21,570
in the leveed area
Levee length
18.5
miles, plus 4.30 of floodwall
Leveed area
31.25
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
4405000561
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Provisionally Accredited Levee (PAL) System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Not Screened
Inspection rating
Not published
Inspection date
Not published
Rehabilitation programme
Active
Responsible sponsor
Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority - East
Waterway
Forty Arpent Canal
Segments
2
USACE district
New Orleans
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
6
Congressional district
01, 02
Consequence estimate
$12.78 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 4405000561. 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.