{"id":4927,"date":"2011-08-17T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/?p=4927"},"modified":"2011-08-17T09:05:42","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T14:05:42","slug":"the-atchafalaya-basin-project-and-the-wax-lake-delta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/08\/the-atchafalaya-basin-project-and-the-wax-lake-delta\/","title":{"rendered":"the atchafalaya basin project and the wax lake delta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5426\" title=\"atchafalaya basin project-45\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/atchafalaya-basin-project-452.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"1390\" \/><br \/>\n[A map of the administrative units of the Atchafalaya Basin Project in 1982, produced by the Army Corps of Engineers. \u00a0The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mvn.usace.army.mil\/pao\/bro\/AtchafalayaBasinProject.pdf\">Atchafalaya Basin system<\/a> is made up of three floodways: the <a href=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/2011\/06\/morganza-floodway\/\">Morganza Floodway<\/a> (fed by the Morganza Spillway), the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/West_Atchafalaya_Floodway\">West Atchafalaya Floodway<\/a>, and the Lower Atchafalaya Floodway; the latter is composed of the confluence of the two former floodways. \u00a0The Basin is quite remarkable ecologically: the swampland of the Atchafalaya Basin is the largest swamp in the United States, and it is <a href=\"http:\/\/lacoast.gov\/new\/About\/Basin_data\/at\/Default.aspx\">&#8220;unique among the basins [of South Louisiana] because it has a growing delta system with nearly stable wetlands&#8221;<\/a>. \u00a0Here, the <a href=\"http:\/\/faslanyc.blogspot.com\/2011\/05\/mississippi-river-land-making-machine.html\">land-making machine<\/a> of the Mississippi River complex continues to function as it has since time immemorial, spraying sediment into shallow coastal waters to produce soggy new ground &#8212; particularly through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mvn.usace.army.mil\/od\/FY%2012%20GIWW%20Wax%20Lake%20Outlet.pdf\">dredged<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/gulfoilspill.audubon.org\/videos\/louisiana-delta-land-building-wax-lake-outlet\">Wax Lake Outlet<\/a> (below), which lies to the west of Morgan City.]<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5419\" title=\"wax-lake-1\" src=\"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/wax-lake-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"1025\" \/><br \/>\n<em>[The Wax Lake Delta is entirely artificial, having been formed purely by sediments deposited through the diversion since its construction in 1942. \u00a0It is apparently consequently often used in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nced.umn.edu\/content\/wax-lake-delta\">studies of deltaic formatio<\/a>n.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[A map of the administrative units of the Atchafalaya Basin Project in 1982, produced by the Army Corps of Engineers. \u00a0The Atchafalaya Basin system is made up of three floodways: the Morganza Floodway (fed by the Morganza Spillway), the West Atchafalaya Floodway, and the Lower Atchafalaya Floodway; the latter is composed of the confluence of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[594],"tags":[609,861,613],"class_list":["post-4927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-floods","tag-atchafalaya","tag-dredge","tag-land-making-machine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4927"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5434,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4927\/revisions\/5434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/m.ammoth.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}