Atchafalaya
Americannoun
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The reason: Less rainfall in the Midwest is expected to again keep the flow of the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers’ freshwater below normal levels well into the summer, The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate reported.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 6, 2023
When it rains, excess nutrients — mostly nitrogen and phosphorus from Midwest farm and livestock operations — wash into the Mississippi and Atchafalaya rivers.
From Salon • Sep. 26, 2021
“Without this engineering, the Atchafalaya would have captured the majority of the flow from the Mississippi by now,” Ganti says.
From Science Magazine • May 13, 2021
Storm surge warnings were in effect from the mouth of the Atchafalaya River to Navarre, Fla., and in Lake Borgne, Lake Pontchartrain, Pensacola Bay and Mobile Bay.
From Fox News • Oct. 28, 2020
The name of this bayou is Atchafalaya, or as it is commonly called, Chaffalio.
From A New Guide for Emigrants to the West by Peck, John Mason
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