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Atchafalaya Basin Bulletin

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News:

The Advocate: Tropical Storm Harvey hinders alligator hunting season, but officials expect it to recover
The Times-Picayune: What deer parts can you legally bring into Louisiana?
LDWF: LDWF, Partners Ask Public to Limit Transport of Roseau Cane, Report Die Off
The Advocate: Locked gates on private land along Mississippi River poses legal issue for Levee Board
The Acadiana Advocate: No lead shot allowed for public-field dove hunts
The Daily Iberian: Basin's water flow brought up at meeting
Daily Comet: Photographs and Memories: 1852 program describes proposed railroad
Country Roads Magazine: Happy, Happening Henderson: Live like the locals and love it
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Events:
Lower Atchafalaya River Sprint, Sept 9 in Patterson
Atchafalaya Trace Commission Meeting, Sept. 13 at 10 am at the Capitol Park Welcome Center in Baton Rouge
The Atchafalaya River Basin, an Ecological Perspective, Sept 15 at the West Baton Rouge Museum in Port Allen
Breaux Bridge Citywide Garage Sale, Oct 6 and 7 in Breaux Bridge
Iberville Swamp Life Expo, Oct 7 at the Grosse Tete Welcome Center
Water Trails of the Atchafalaya, June 17 - Oct 29 at the West Baton Rouge Museum in Port Allen
La Table Francaise, last Saturday of every month at NUNU Arts and Culture Collective in Arnaudville
Les Courdre Pointes Quilting Circle, every Thursday from 1:30 - 3:30 pm at NUNU Arts and Culture Collective in Arnaudville

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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. Current Atchafalaya Basin water levels from NOAA.

Data is for 9/8/2017

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: 18.7'

24 hour change: -1.5'

Forecast: expect to FALL to 15.6' by 9/13

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: 32.4'

24 hour change: +0.2'

Forecast: expect to RISE to 33.4' by 9/13

Mississippi River at Baton Rouge

Flood Stage: 35'

Stage: 16.8'

24 hour change: +0.3'

Forecast: expect to RISE to 18.0' by 9/13

Mississippi River at New Orleans

Flood Stage: 17'

Stage: 5.5'

24 hour change: +0.2'

Forecast: expect to RISE to 5.9' by 9/13

Atchafalaya River

Atchafalaya River at Simmesport

Flood Stage: 47'

Stage: 13.3'

Forecast: expect to FALL to 14.3' by 9/13

Atchafalaya River at Melville

Flood Stage: 34'

Stage: 9.1'

Forecast: expect to RISE to 10.2' by 9/13

Atchafalaya River at Krotz Springs

Flood Stage: 29'

Stage: 8.2'

Forecast: expect to RISE to 9.2' by 9/13

Atchafalaya River above Butte La Rose

Flood Stage: 20'

Stage: 6.8'

Forecast: expect to RISE to 7.3' by 9/13

Atchafalaya River at Bayou Sorrell Locks on the GIWW

Flood Stage: 12'

Stage: 4.4'

Forecast: expect to RISE to 4.7' by 9/13

Atchafalaya at Millet (Myette) Point

Flood Stage: 15'

Stage: 3.8'

Forecast: expect to RISE to 4.3' by 9/13

Atchafalaya River at Morgan City

Flood Stage: 6'

Stage: 2.6'

Forecast: expect to RISE to 2.8' by 9/13

Murphy Lake near Bayou Sorrel

Stage: 10.17'

Lower Grand River at Bayou Sorrel

Stage: 7.34'

Bayou Courtableau (inside the floodway)

Stage: 23.50'

Middle Fork, Bayou Long

Stage: 3.53'

Arm of Grand Lake near Crook Chene Cove

Stage: 7.25'

Pontoon Bridge at Butte Larose

Stage: 9.35'

Lake Pelba at I-10, Henderson

Stage: 13.54'

Little Alabama Bayou at Sherbourne

Stage: 18.94'

Work Canal near I-10

Stage: 9.40'

Bayou La Rompe at Lake Long

Stage: 7.02'

Keelboat Pass below Lake Chicot

Stage: 3.94'

   
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