A proposed Atchafalaya Basin project is meant to restore wetlands, but some say it could drown communities and devastate a ...

At a second meeting Monday of Acadiana representatives to discuss regional drainage issues ... levee along the Atchafalaya Basin following the devastating 1927 Mississippi River flood, it ...

The Mississippi River is rising, the Army Corps of Engineers ... after a long fight that ran for nearly 20 years over the Atchafalaya basin. As we know, the great flood of 1927 ended a long ...

The Atchafalaya River in southern Louisiana was formed when the Mississippi River—North America's largest drainage—diverted into the Red River basin. Near the point where the Mississippi and ...

Nearly 40 years later, he now runs Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, a member of Waterkeeper Alliance. Located in south central Louisiana, the basin — a combination of wetlands and river delta where the ...

The Atchafalaya basin — the largest river swamp in the United States — encompasses over a million acres of wetlands and marshlands. The wetlands provide a critical buffer against rising seas ...