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Lake Maurepas is a circular-shaped, shallow, brackish tidal estuarine system. It is approximately 240 square kilometres (93 sq mi) in area and has a mean depth of about 3 meters (9.8 ft). The lake receives fresh water from four river systems: Blind River, Amite River, Tickfaw River, and the Natalbany River.
Lake Pontchartrain (/ ˈpɒntʃətreɪn / PON-chə-trayn; [1] French: Lac Pontchartrain) is an estuary located in southeastern Louisiana in the United States. It covers an area of 630 square miles (1,600 km 2) with an average depth of 12 to 14 feet (3.7 to 4.3 m). Some shipping channels are kept deeper through dredging.
Lake Peigneur[2] is a brackish lake in the U.S. state of Louisiana, 1.2 miles (1.9 kilometers) north of Delcambre and 9.1 mi (14.6 km) west of New Iberia, near the northernmost tip of Vermilion Bay. With a maximum depth of 200 feet (60 meters), it is the deepest lake in Louisiana. Its name comes from the French word "peigneur", meaning "one who ...
Lake Verret is 14,080 acres (5,700 ha) natural lake located in Assumption, Parish, Louisiana, US.The lake is west of Napoleonville, Louisiana, south of Pierre Part, part of the Atchafalaya River Basin of the Lower Mississippi River Region, with 246,000 acres (100,000 ha) of watershed that includes 22,300 acres (9,000 ha) (34.84 square miles (90.2 km 2)) in Ascension Parish 104,500 acres ...
The water table is the upper surface of the zone of saturation. The zone of saturation is where the pores and fractures of the ground are saturated with groundwater, [ 1 ] which may be fresh, saline, or brackish, depending on the locality. It can also be simply explained as the depth below which the ground is saturated.
Atchafalaya Basin. The wetlands of Louisiana are water-saturated coastal and swamp regions of southern Louisiana, often called "Bayou".. The Louisiana coastal zone stretches from the border of Texas to the Mississippi line [1] and comprises two wetland-dominated ecosystems, the Deltaic Plain of the Mississippi River (unit 1, 2, and 3) and the closely linked Chenier Plain (unit 4). [2]
Max. depth. 10 ft (3.0 m) Surface elevation. Sea level. Lac des Allemands is a 12,000-acre (4,900 ha) lake located about 25 miles (40 km) southwest of New Orleans, Louisiana, in Lafourche, St. Charles, and St. John the Baptist Parishes. [1] The lake name is French for "Lake of the Germans", referring to the early settlers who inhabited that ...
The Atchafalaya Basin, or Atchafalaya Swamp (/ əˌtʃæfəˈlaɪə /; Louisiana French: Atchafalaya, [atʃafalaˈja]), is the largest wetland and swamp in the United States. Located in south central Louisiana, it is a combination of wetlands and river delta area where the Atchafalaya River and the Gulf of Mexico converge.