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The Red River. Shreveport, Louisiana. Although many advances have been made towards flood protection in Louisiana, flooding is inevitable; the changing course of the river(s) will continue no matter how high the levees are built. [12] The Mississippi River flood history shows that the river has a pattern of major flooding once every decade or so.
Cross Bayou is a 38.0-mile-long (61.2 km) [2] river in Texas and Louisiana.It is a tributary of the Red River, part of the Mississippi River watershed.. It rises in southeastern Harrison County, Texas, 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Marshall, and flows east into Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
The Red River, or sometimes the Red River of the South to differentiate it from the Red River in the north of the continent, is a major river in the Southern United States. [3] It was named for its reddish water color from passing through red-bed country in its watershed . [ 4 ]
The Shreveport Department of Water and Sewerage cleans Manganese from a tank at the T L Amiss Water Purification Plant on Tuesday afternoon, July 30, 2024. Maple-Lars said the water department is ...
Bayou Pierre is a partially man-made bayou and ancient course of the Red River [1] in Louisiana, United States.It is a tributary of the Red River originating from an ancient bend of the Red River at Coate's Bluff (Wright Island) in Shreveport, LA [2] (now blocked off by a levee to prevent the Red River from flooding into Bayou Pierre) and merging west from the town of Clarence, Louisiana. [3]
The 2023 Community Public Water System Grades were released by the Louisiana Department of Health in May, and Shreveport Water System was awarded an F grade. 20 points were deducted for ...
The Red River, opened by Shreve in the 1830s, remained navigable throughout the Civil War. But seasonal water levels got so low at one point that Union Admiral David Dixon Porter was trapped with his gunboats north of Alexandria. His engineers quickly constructed a temporary dam to raise the water level and free his fleet.
Eight rivers reached record levels, including the Amite and Comite rivers. [12] The Amite River crested at nearly 5 ft (1.5 m) above the previous record in Denham Springs. [13] Nearly one-third of all homes—approximately 15,000 structures—in Ascension Parish were flooded after a levee along the Amite River was overtopped. [14]