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The Amite River Basin Commission is proposing to preserve this 4,265-acre region of lowland swamp in South Baton Rouge for ...
The Amite River Basin Commission, a Baton Rouge regional agency most tied to the long-running Comite River Diversion Canal, ...
The Mississippi River's immense size and its winding path across relatively flat terrain mean that floodwaters travel slowly downstream. It can take weeks for the surge of water currently moving ...
A map from the mid-1800s shows this area of the river once included numerous channels off the main stem of the East Fork Lewis River winding through ... users for 3 miles downstream from the ...
Though the high water crested near the river's southern tributaries, the swell is headed downstream and some people to the north could be affected, said Marilyn Connolly, emergency management ...
These chunks are then carried downstream by the river. When these big chunks reach ... moving steeply down from Leadville to Salida before winding through the Royal Gorge and Canon City, Pueblo ...
It is one of the most polluted rivers in Central America, winding 302 miles (486 ... By some estimates, the trash carried downstream by the Motagua River makes up roughly 2% of the total plastic ...
River floods are becoming more likely globally because of climate change, but not in the waterway’s downstream sections where more people live. That’s according to a new study coauthored by a ...
These winding waterways provide ... aquifer that also contributes to the river, which goes on to provide drinking water for metropolitan Phoenix farther downstream. Conservationists and land ...