River Log section: Atchafalaya River
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311.7 - 310 LBD Tunica Hills below Clark Creek (Mississippi Loess Bluffs #6) There are places in this world where you feel like the creator paid special attention in the landscape and arrangement of plants. The Tunica Hills is one of the special places. Not many people know about
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311.7 LBD Clark Creek Clark Creek is the last significant drainage coming out of the State of Mississippi into the big river. As if wanting to gift paddlers with a landscape worth remembering, Clark Creek Creek creates one of the most colorful and creative settings, which can be best
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311.7 RBD Auxiliary Intake -- Old River Control Structure As you paddle past Knox Landing and around Point Breeze, with the Clark Creek/Tunica Hills on your left, you might notice a mournful “fog horn” like sounding echoing through the woods right bank descending. This is the warning horn
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313.7 RBD Knox Landing You could start your Atchafalaya Expedition from Knox Landing. Put in here, on the Mississippi River, paddle downstream ten miles to the Old River Channel. Pass through the Lock and Dam and paddle seven more miles total to reach mile -0- the start of the
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316.3 RBD Hydro Intake -- Old River Control Structure Maybe you’ve read about it, or heard frightening tales about it. It’s as legendary as the Chain of Rocks of St. Louis, and as little understood, and as many tall tales told about. No, you won’t be
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316.3 RBD Hydro Inflow Channel This is the first of three openings sucking water out of the Mississippi for destination down the Atchafalaya. The hydro canal feeds the hydroelectric power plant and is always open with water flowing in. At low water only the hydro intake will be open.
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USACE 2012 Atchafalaya River and Outlets to Gulf of Mexico USACE 2012 Atchafalaya River and Outlets to Gulf of Mexico Navigation Chart Folio, 6th Edition http://www2.mvn.usace.army.mil/ENG/EDSD/mapbooks/atch_nav_2012_map.asp Louisiana Geological Survey Atchafalaya Basin Map In addition to the USACE
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Atchafalaya River Boat Ramps (Functional Jan 2016) Old River Lock & Dam Boat Ramps 5.3 RBD Simmesport Boat Ramp 29.7 RBD Melville Boat Ramp 42.3 RBD Krotz Springs Boat Ramp 55 LBD Atchafalaya NWR 61.7 LBD Bayou Des Glaises (primitive) Breaux’s Boat Ramp (Old Atchafalaya)
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Rivergator: Paddler’s Guide to Atchafalaya River: Atchafalaya River & Basin © 2015 John RuskeyFor the Rivergator: Lower Mississippi River Water TrailThe www.rivergator.org is a free public use websitepresented by the Lower Mississippi River Foundation.Re-printing of text and photos by permission only with proper credits. Atchafalaya River Basin
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151.5 LBD Bird Island East Bird Island East is the very last piece of marshland on the Atchfalaya River system. Do not venture out this far into the Gulf unless you are certain you will not be encountering wind, oncoming weather, nor any major tide changes. There is a
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150.5 RBD Eugene Island Nothing more than a tiny spit of shells, Eugene Island is located adjacent the main ocean-going channel of the Atchafalaya Navigation system. Not recommended except in ideal conditions, with no wind, no oncoming weather, and no major tide changes expected. To assist your predictions, there
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149.8 RBD Skimmer Island