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Bayou St. John (French: Bayou Saint-Jean) is a bayou within the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. [1] The grand Bayou St. John in 1728. The Bayou as a natural feature drained the swampy land of a good portion of what was to become New Orleans, into Lake Pontchartrain.
Little River - tributary of the Black (Ouachita) River; Loggy Bayou; Mermentau River; Mississippi River; Natalbany River; New River; Old River (Natchitoches Parish) Old River (Louisiana), in Pointe Coupee and West Feliciana parishes; Old River (Sabine River tributary) Ouachita River; Ouiski Chitto Creek; Pass Manchac; Pearl River; Ponchatoula ...
Lake Charles, located on a level plain about 30 miles (48 km) from the Gulf of Mexico, has an elevation of approximately 13 feet (4.0 m) above sea level, [15] and is located on the banks of the Calcasieu River in southwestern Louisiana.
The ports of New Orleans, South Louisiana, and Baton Rouge cover 172 miles (277 km) on both banks of the Mississippi River. The Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet Canal (now closed by a rock dike built across the channel at Bayou La Loutre) extends 67 miles (108 km) from New Orleans to the Gulf of Mexico, and the channel up the Mississippi River from New Orleans to Baton Rouge runs at a 48-foot (14 ...
The 2019 opening began February 27, 2019, [5] when river levels were predicted to rise to minor flood stage in New Orleans on March 19, 2019. The Army Corps of Engineers initially opened 38 of the 350 bays and increased this number to 206 bays when the flood crest arrived later in March.
The weather service in New Orleans said during a 9 p.m. briefing that water was entering homes and businesses across St. Charles Parish, getting close to that in St. John the Baptist Parish, and ...
Lake Charles (French: Lac Charles) is a brackish lake located on the Calcasieu River in Southwest Louisiana, United States, situated almost entirely within the Lake Charles city limits. The Calcasieu Ship Channel flows along the western side for large ships to pass and is the western boundary of the city limits. [ 1 ]
The Calcasieu River (/ ˈ k æ l k ə ˌ ʃ uː / KAL-kə-shoo; French: Rivière Calcasieu) is a river on the Gulf Coast in southwestern Louisiana. [1] Approximately 200 miles (320 km) long, [ 2 ] it drains a largely rural area of forests and bayou country, meandering southward to the Gulf of Mexico .