Atchafalaya


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Atchafalaya

(əchă`fəlī'ə), navigable river, c.170 mi (270 km) long, S central La. The Atchafalaya meanders south, in a former channel of the Mississippi, to the Gulf of Mexico. A distributary of the Red and Mississippi rivers, the Atchafalaya flows to the Gulf through an extensive system of guide levees and floodways. Important to the agriculture and energy industries of the region, the system serves as a flood control for the lower Mississippi, especially around New Orleans.
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The final, 163-mile segment of the pipeline would cut through the Atchafalaya Basin, a national heritage site and America's largest natural swamp.
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In Louisiana, where I cut my teeth hunting, the percentage of hunters who use watercraft might be higher than in any other state, due to the number of bayous, rivers and the huge Atchafalaya Basin.
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Previous programs covered the state's bicentennial and the historical and culturally rich Atchafalaya National Heritage Area.
Battle of New Orleans curriculum to build on state history
Over the past five years, the Environmental Protection Agency has made little progress on reducing the size of the annual "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico, a shortcoming that could be addressed by a better system to monitor and track progress in reducing nitrogen and phosphorus discharges in the Mississippi and Atchafalaya river basins, according to a new report by EPA's Office of the Inspector General (IG).
EPA inspector general outlines plan to better monitor gulf pollution
scovelli in Lake Saint John, an oxbow of the Mississippi River near Ferriday, Louisiana, but could not confirm that this was a self-sustaining population because the larvae born in his freshwater aquarium died and he reported a possible route to enter the lake when flood events connect the lake to the Atchafalaya River via some small creeks.
Apparent persistence of a landlocked population of Gulf pipefish, Syngnathus scovelli

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