Word: atchafalaya
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such was the New Madrid Floodway through a strip of eastern Missouri below Cairo. Another was the Eudora Floodway, in Arkansas and Louisiana, to carry floods from the neighborhood of the mouth of the Arkansas River to the mouth of the Red River. The third was the Atchafalaya Floodway from near the Red River to the Gulf, west of New Orleans, a route only half as long as the main channel of the Mississippi. Instead of being raised three feet like other levees, the "fuse plug" levees at the mouths of these floodways were left at the old level...