St. Martin Parish council members and swamp advocates are opposing a river diversion project in the Atchafalaya Basin, citing ...

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 ...

I-10 West is closed on the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge past the rest area because of a crash, according to the Louisiana ...

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 ...

I-10 West is blocked on the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge just before Whiskey Bay because of a crash, according to the Louisiana ...

"With the goal of increasing flow, the EGL Project will simultaneously introduce sediment- and fertilizer-laden Mississippi River water into the interior swamp of the Atchafalaya Basin, in a 5000+ ...

ATCHAFALAYA BASIN, La. (WVUE) - The Atchafalaya Swamp is a critical floodway for the Mississippi River. It also has been impacted by the timber and oil industries. But the area remains an amazing ...

and creates a drainage basin over 1,245,000 square miles in size. Before reaching the Gulf, the Mississippi meets up with its distributary, the Atchafalaya River," the EPA wrote on its website.

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 ...