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LA 2. Atachafalaya Floodway System. Acreage: Undetermined. 



Location: St. Martin, St. Mary, and Assumption parishes; N of Morgan City; 

 reached via U.S. 90 and secondary roads. 



Description: A second-growth cypress swamp contains some original cypress 

 and tupelo gum trees. Grand Lake-Six Mile Lake is silting up as a result of con- 

 struction of a guide levee system. Lake Verret is the least spoiled portion. 



References: Pritchard, Kniffen, and Brown, edited by James Leander, 

 Cat heart Journal, Publ. Louisville Historical Society; Hutton, James, manuscript 

 Diary, Archives, Washington, D.C.; see Plates 12, 1 2C in Fisk, H.N. 1952, 

 Geological Investigations of Atachafalaya Basin, Miss. River. Comm., U.S. 

 Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg. 



Encroachments: Lumbering, guide levees, and oil exploration. 



Ownership: Lake bottom and some shoreline owned by the state of Louisiana. 



Data source: Clair A. Brown, 1 180 Stanford Ave., Baton Rouge, La. 70834. 



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