Levees / Mississippi / 5905000008

Tchula Lake MS

Belzoni, Humphreys County, Mississippi. On the Yazoo River. USACE records 1,870 people living in the area this system is built to protect.

Provisionally Accredited Levee (PAL) SystemUSACE oversight
People behind it
1,870
USACE figure
Structures
946
in the leveed area
Levee length
33.4
miles
Leveed area
183.59
square miles
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The federal record

System ID
5905000008
System type
Levee System
FEMA accreditation
Provisionally Accredited Levee (PAL) System
Screening rating (LSAC)
Low
Inspection rating
U
Inspection date
03/18/2013
Rehabilitation programme
NA
Responsible sponsor
Mississippi Department of Transportation, USACE - Vicksburg District, Yazoo-Mississippi Delta Levee District
Waterway
Yazoo River
Segments
3
USACE district
Vicksburg
USACE division
Mississippi Valley Division
FEMA region
4
Congressional district
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Consequence estimate
$234.7 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 5905000008. 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.