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The Atchafalaya River (/ ə ˌ tʃ æ f. ə ˈ l aɪ. ə / [2] French: La Rivière Atchafalaya, Spanish: Río Atchafalaya) is a 137-mile-long (220 km) [3] distributary of the Mississippi River and Red River in south central Louisiana in the United States. It flows south, just west of the Mississippi River, [4] and is the fifth largest river in ...
The Dugdemona River (pronounced dug-duh-mona) is a 129-mile-long (208 km) [1] tributary of the Little River in north-central Louisiana in the United States. [2] Via the Little, Ouachita and Red rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River .
The bayou is flanked by Louisiana Highway 1 on the west and Louisiana Highway 308 on the east, and is known as "the longest Main Street in the world." [5] It flows through parts of Ascension, Assumption, and Lafourche parishes. Today, approximately 300,000 Louisiana residents drink water drawn from the bayou. [6]
On Monday, the corps of engineers began building a sill across the river bed in Myrtle Grove, about 30 miles (48 kilometers) south of New Orleans. The sill is meant to slow or halt salt water, which flows along the bottom of the river because it's more dense than fresh water. Building the sill with river sand is estimated to be completed by ...
The Louisiana Natural and Scenic Rivers System was established in 1970, ... Little River - 081601 and 081602; Pearl Creek - 110202; Saline Bayou ...
Louisiana could petition the EPA to declare sections of the Mississippi River or the Gulf of Mexico as impaired, which would allow for the creation of an enforceable limit on nutrients entering ...
Scientists mapped the flow of water through every single river on the planet, every day over the past 35 years, using a combination of satellite data and computer modeling. What they found shocked ...