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Atchafalaya

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Atchafalaya

River in Louisiana, the southwesterly distributary for floodwaters from the Red and Mississippi rivers. The Atchafalaya rises 11 km/7 mi west of the Mississippi, and winds 354 km/220 mi south and southeast, past Simmesport and Morgan City, to Atchafalaya Bay in the Gulf of Mexico. The river broadens into Grand Lake, 55 km/34 mi long and 6 km/4 mi wide, above Morgan City, and is intersected at the town by the Intracoastal Waterway. Extensive guide-levee (embankment) systems channel flood waters into its course.



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Indeed, if water control projects were destroyed and the Mississippi were allowed to take its natural course, it would inevitably become captured by the Atchafalaya River, which empties off the south-central coast of Louisiana.
Louisiana's wetlands: a lesson in nature appreciation by Tibbetts, John / Environmental Health Perspectives
The Corps's ambition, according to McPhee, reached a sort of culmination in the building of the Old River dams and locks near the spot where the Red River empties into the Mississippi, designed to keep the great river in its present channel and out of the Atchafalaya basin, where it seems naturally to seek a shorter outlet to the Gulf, while allowing high water from the main river to be released into the basin if necessary to prevent flooding downstream.
Saving a great city: why America should rebuild New Orleans by Stoner, James R., Jr. / The Weekly Standard
And when you're ready to leave dry ground behind, take a boat tour of the picturesque Atchafalaya River Basin to encounter gators, birds, and the vast beauty of the swamp.
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