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The Red River. Shreveport, Louisiana. Although many advances have been made towards flood protection in Louisiana, flooding is inevitable; the changing course of the river(s) will continue no matter how high the levees are built. [12] The Mississippi River flood history shows that the river has a pattern of major flooding once every decade or so.
Cross Bayou is a 38.0-mile-long (61.2 km) [2] river in Texas and Louisiana.It is a tributary of the Red River, part of the Mississippi River watershed.. It rises in southeastern Harrison County, Texas, 15 miles (24 km) southeast of Marshall, and flows east into Caddo Parish, Louisiana.
The Red River, opened by Shreve in the 1830s, remained navigable throughout the Civil War. But seasonal water levels got so low at one point that Union Admiral David Dixon Porter was trapped with his gunboats north of Alexandria. His engineers quickly constructed a temporary dam to raise the water level and free his fleet.
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The Shreveport Department of Water and Sewerage cleans Manganese from a tank at the T L Amiss Water Purification Plant on Tuesday afternoon, July 30, 2024. Maple-Lars said the water department is ...
The Department of Water and Sewage issued a news release March 11 that stated, "Several months ago, Mayor Tom Arceneaux directed the City's Department of Water and Sewerage to review the accuracy ...
The river also crosses through Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana where then it links into the Mississippi River. [16] The Red River is mostly surrounded by rural farm land with the only surrounding major cities being Shreveport, Louisiana and Alexandria, Louisiana. The Red River is home to many oil fields with oil and gas production being one ...
The 2023 Community Public Water System Grades were released by the Louisiana Department of Health in May, and Shreveport Water System was awarded an F grade. 20 points were deducted for ...