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Water diverted at Old River flows into the Atchafalaya Basin, first entering the Red River, then continuing down the Atchafalaya River to the Gulf of Mexico, bypassing Baton Rouge and New Orleans (see diagram). The Morganza Floodway, between the Mississippi and the Atchafalaya Basin nearby downstream, is normally closed. It can be opened in an ...
Little River - tributary of the Black (Ouachita) River; Loggy Bayou; Mermentau River; Mississippi River; Natalbany River; New River; Old River (Natchitoches Parish) Old River (Louisiana), in Pointe Coupee and West Feliciana parishes; Old River (Sabine River tributary) Ouachita River; Ouiski Chitto Creek; Pass Manchac; Pearl River; Ponchatoula ...
Natchitoches City Hall A store with live fish for sale near Natchitoches, 1940. Photo by Marion Post Wolcott.. Natchitoches (/ ˈ n æ k ə t ə ʃ / NAK-ə-təsh; [2] [3] French: Les Natchitoches, [le nakitɔʃ]), officially the City of Natchitoches, is a small city and the parish seat of Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, United States. [4]
Officials in Louisiana are in a race against time as salt water from the Gulf of Mexico threatens drinking water supplies in New Orleans and its surrounding areas because of unusually low levels ...
The Bonnet Carré Spillway diverting excess Mississippi River water The Bonnet Carré Spillway / ˈ b ɒ n iː ˈ k ɛr iː / is a flood control operation in the Lower Mississippi Valley . Located in St. Charles Parish, Louisiana , about 12 miles (19 km) west of New Orleans , it allows floodwaters from the Mississippi River to flow into Lake ...
Red River Parish (French: Paroisse de la Rivière-Rouge) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census , the population was 7,620, [ 1 ] making it the fourth-least populous parish in 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 ]
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