|
Greetings and Happy New Year from the Department of Natural Resources Atchafalaya Basin Program!
NEWS AND EVENTS:
|
News:
|
|
| Times-Picayune: Water is a Louisiana swamp hunter's best friend |
| The Advocate: 2015 Hunting Dates |
| The Advertiser: Atchafalaya Voices: The Streets of Lafayette |
| Louisiana Sportsman: 5 keys to goose-hunting success |
| |
|
Save the Date:
|
| Atchafalaya Trace Commission Meeting, Jan 7 at 10 a.m. at the Capitol Park Welcome Center, 702 River Road North, in Baton Rouge |
| Wood Duck Nest Box Workshop, Jan 10 in St. Martinville |
| Les Mains Guidées: Mortise & Tenon, Jan 10 from 10 am - 12 pm in Vermilionville |
| Catahoula Levee Trail Hike, Jan 17, meet at 8 am at Pack and Paddle in Lafayette |
| Vigilantes on the Bayou, Jan 23 - 24 from 9 am - 4 pm at Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site in St. Martinville |
| Cinema on the Bayou, film festival to advance "the understanding of Cajun and Creole cultures through film screenings, film panels and cultural exchanges among French Louisiana, the United States and the Francophone countries of the world." Jan 21 - Jan 25 in Lafayette |
| Prehistoric Mounds Tour, Jan 24 from 10 am - 12 pm at Marksville State Historic Site |
| Healing Traditions of Acadiana, Jan 31 from 11 am - 2 pm in Vermilionville |
| Learn Your Binocular, Jan 31 from 3 - 7 pm at the Highland Road Observatory in Baton Rouge |
| Good Gumbo for a Good Cause, Jan 31 in Opelousas |
| Help Friends of the Atchafalaya purchase a kayak for the Atchafalaya Swamp Base, through Feb 13 |
| Manchac: In the Wake of North Pass, a visual art exhibit that explores the destructive beauty and complex role of invasive aquatic plants upon the fragile ecology of Louisiana's bayous, Jan 10 through March 15 at LASM in Baton Rouge |
|
Send in your Basin Pics!
Let us know if you have an upcoming event to promote the Basin!
|
Checking the water:
The information below is obtained from the USGS and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and has been compiled by DNR into this format to allow a quick look at information pertinent to the Atchafalaya Basin. Click here for current weather conditions and water levels.
Data is for 1/6/2015
ALL STAGE FORECASTS INCLUDE 24 HOURS OF FUTURE RAINFALL.
Ohio River at Cairo
Location: Southernmost gauge on the Ohio River in Illinois Reading significance - used to forecast rises on the Mississippi. Lag time, 4 to 6 days.
Flood Stage: 40'
Stage: 28.4'
24 hour change: +0.7'
Forecast: expect to RISE to 29.8' by 1/11
Mississippi River, just south of ORCS, at Red River Landing
Reading: Mississippi River south of ORCS, after the diversion into the Atchafalaya
Flood Stage: 48'
Stage: 33.4'
24 hour change: +1.6'
Forecast: expect to RISE to 38.2' by 1/11
Mississippi River at Baton Rouge
Flood Stage: 35'
Stage: 18.0'
24 hour change +1.8'
Forecast: expect to RISE to 22.6' by 1/11
Mississippi River at New Orleans
Flood Stage: 17'
Stage: 5.1'
24 hour change: +0.5'
Forecast: expect to RISE to 7.6' by 1/11
Atchafalaya River, just south of ORCS, at Simmesport
Reading: The combined latitudinal flows of the Red, Black, Ouachita, and ORCS flow from the Mississippi
Flood Stage: 47'
Stage: 16.1'
Forecast: expect to RISE to 19.9' by 1/11
Atchafalaya River at Melville
Flood Stage: 34'
Stage: 11.5'
Forecast: expect to RISE to 15.5' by 1/11
Atchafalaya River at Krotz Springs
Flood Stage: 29'
Stage: 10.2'
Forecast: expect to RISE to 13.8' by 1/11
Atchafalaya River above Butte Larose
Flood Stage: 20'
Stage: 7.5'
Forecast: expect to RISE to 10.2' by 1/11
Atchafalaya River at Bayou Sorrell Locks on the GIWW
Flood Stage: 12'
Stage: 4.6'
Forecast: expect to RISE to 6.6' by 1/11
Atchafalaya at Millet (Myette) Point
Flood Stage: 15'
Stage: 4.9'
Forecast: expect to RISE to 6.3' by 1/11
Atchafalaya River at Morgan City
Flood Stage: 6'
Stage: 2.3'
Forecast: expect to RISE to 3.1' by 1/11
Murphy Lake near Bayou Sorrel
Stage: 9.83'
Lower Grand River at Bayou Sorrel
Stage: 7.57'
Bayou Courtableau
Stage: 23.21'
Buffalo Cove at Round Island
Stage: 5.31'
Middle Fork, Bayou Long
Stage: 3.18'
Arm of Grand Lake near Crook Chene
Stage: 7.09'
Bayou Darby at Fausse Pt. Cut
Stage: 12.39'
Lake Pelba at I-10, Henderson
Stage: 12.02'
|
