The closure of the 405-foot-long Bayou Chene floodgate is the first time the three-year-old structure has been used due to ...

See the KATC 10 Day Forecast ... flood stage at the Red River Landing within a week and max out roughly a week later. Normally 30% of that water is diverted into the Atchafalaya River ...

Not that the Atchafalaya isn’t still swarming ... The first groups settled along the Mississippi River and in the present-day St. Martinville area, while later arrivals mostly scattered into ...

It spans approximately 1,200 miles, stretching from Florida to Texas, and is home to the largest swamp in America, the Atchafalaya River Basin. RELATED: The Americas Takes Viewers to the Graveyard ...