A Levee Runs Through It: Reconnecting the Ouachita River to Its Floodplain

This summer, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and The Nature Conservancy in Louisiana plan to breach a 17-mile levee that surrounds 25 square miles at the Upper Ouachita River National Wildlife Refuge in northeast Louisiana. The project is the largest floodplain reconnection and reforestation in the United States.

As of May 19, extremely high flood waters on the Ouachita River are threatening to cause the levees to fail, which would postpone and alter the partners' plans to reconnect the river to its floodplain.

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• louisiana
• floodplain reconnection
• upper ouachita
• national wildlife refuge
• mollicy farms
• reforestation
• jay harrod

[ozarkhellbenderz]

They have accomplished much of this work. Learn more at

nature dot org forward slash louisiana (There is a link at the bottom of this page.) Not sure why I couldn't post a web address here!

[satguy11]

Did this project get done? I remember when this levee broke back then.

I was active on working to stop Corps of Engineers from cutting bends out of the river back then. It took us 3 years and geting rid of a congressman but we won.