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The Old River is a tidal distributary of the San Joaquin River that flows for about 40 miles (64 km) through the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta in Northern California. The Old River was once the main channel of the San Joaquin until navigation ( Stockton Deepwater Shipping Channel ) and flood control projects in the late 19th and 20th ...
Old River is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kern County, California. [2] It is located 9.5 miles (15 km) southwest of Bakersfield , [ 3 ] at an elevation of 341 feet (104 m).
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 Louisiana. It regulates the flow of water from the Mississippi into the Atchafalaya River, thereby preventing the Mississippi River from changing course.
The title character of "Old Rivers" is an elderly farmer, a childhood friend of the song's main protagonist. The protagonist, whose family is very poor, recalls how Old Rivers used a mule-drawn plow to cultivate fields in the hot sun. The mule's name was "Midnight," and together man and mule would plow straight, deep rows for the crops, which ...
Bates Old River is located off U.S. 601, just across the Congaree River in Richland County. It is 2 hours from the Beaufort County area and easy to reach. Take I-95 north for 68 miles to Exit 97 ...
Aaron Lynwood Carter, 27, is charged with one count of felony involuntary manslaughter and one count of felony child abuse inflicting serious bodily injury in connection with 2-year-old River ...
Old River Control Structure, connecting the Red River to the Atchafalaya and Mississippi Rivers Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with the same name.
The removal of the massive log jams hastened the capture of the Mississippi River's waters in lower Louisiana by the Atchafalaya River, a major distributary emptying separately into the Gulf of Mexico. In the 20th century, to maintain the Mississippi, the US Army Corps of Engineers built the multibillion-dollar Old River Control Structure. [7]