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Atchafalaya (Ah-cha-fa-lie-ah) River is about 150 miles long and is in southern Louisiana, west of Baton Rouge
and New Orleans. A hundred or so years ago it was a distributory river of the Mississippi River. A fear arose
that the Mississippi River might shift course and use the Atchafalaya as the main channel, so the U.S. Army Corp
created the Old River Control System near where the Atchafalaya, Mississippi and Red Rivers meet.
But first, this Louisiana Welcome Center is along I-10 near where it crosses the Atchafalaya River.
Lock and dam of the Old River Control System, it connects the Red and Atchafalya Rivers to the Mississippi River
for barge traffic. Other control systems allow Mississippi River to overflow into the Atchafalaya River Basin
at times of high water.
Looking down channel from the lock and dam towards the Atchafalaya somewhere out there.
A business along the channel as viewed from the levee.
Louisiana Highway 1 Bridge over the Atchafalaya near Simmesport, La. The northernmost view of the River for me.
Taken from a small park/boat launch east of Simmesport along Louisiana Highway 105.
Looking down river from the same location.
These two pipelines come up from out of the ground and cross over the river. Noticed a couple of these.
A natural gas or petroleum line, I guess.
Railroad bridge at Melrose, La.
Ferry boat at Melrose.
U.S. Highway 190 Bridge.
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