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| 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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