Gov. John Bel Edwards on Monday created a new Atchafalaya River Basin Restoration and Enhancement Task Force to help the state navigate the conflicting interests within the basin, including fishers, ...

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A new study released this week confirms what coastal restoration scientists have thought all along: The slow-moving Atchafalaya River does a better job of building wetlands during major floods than ...

Four residents of Acadiana were appointed this week to the Governor’s Advisory Task Force on Atchafalaya River Basin Restoration and Enhancement. 1 weather alerts 1 closings/delays.

The St. Martin Parish Council has filed amicus brief in support of a lawsuit to stop a river diversion project in the ...

When the Mississippi River is at risk of flooding, the Army Corps can divert more water to the Atchafalaya, flooding the basin. That has only happened twice — in 1973 and 2011 — but nearby ...

The company owns about 40,000 acres within the Atchafalaya River Basin floodway, land that hasn’t been as productive as it once was because there’s little control over when the area floods.

BATON ROUGE (CN) — A federal judge stopped construction Friday of the Bayou Bridge Pipeline though the Atchafalaya River Basin, one of North America’s “ecological crown jewels” and largest swamp, ...

“If the Atchafalaya Basin floodway cannot capture and pass the projected floods due to sedimentation and loss of capacity, there will be cascading effects through south Louisiana, including for major ...

St. Martin Parish council members and swamp advocates are opposing a river diversion project in the Atchafalaya Basin, citing concerns over flooding and ecological damage, and have filed a lawsuit ...