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Interstate 10 crosses the basin on elevated pillars on a continuous 18.2-mile (29.3 km) bridge from Grosse Tete, Louisiana, to Henderson, Louisiana, near the Whiskey River Pilot Channel at The Atchafalaya National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1984 to improve plant communities for endangered and declining species of wildlife, waterfowl ...
1 By drainage basin. ... Old River (Louisiana), in Pointe Coupee and West Feliciana parishes; ... USGS Hydrologic Unit Map - State of Louisiana (1974)
The Louisiana Natural and Scenic Rivers System was established in 1970, administered by the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, and includes approximately 3000 miles of waterways. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
The Atchafalaya River is navigable and provides a significant industrial shipping channel for the state of Louisiana. It is the cultural heart of the Cajun Country.. The maintenance of the river as a navigable channel of the Mississippi River has been a significant project of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for more than a century.
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Concordia Parish, Louisiana is in the foreground, on the right, and Wilkinson County, Mississippi, is in the background, across the Mississippi on the left. Old River low-sill control structure discharging water into the Atchafalaya, May 2011. The Old River Control Structure is a floodgate system in a branch of the Mississippi River in central ...
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]
The Tensas River [2] / ˈ t ɛ n s ɔː / is a river in Louisiana in the United States. The river, known as Tensas Bayou in its upper reaches, [ 3 ] begins in East Carroll Parish in the northeast corner of the state and runs roughly southwest for 177 miles (285 km) [ 4 ] more or less in parallel with the Mississippi River .