On Monday May 9, 2011 Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper went on a patrol of the Mississippi River in light of the rising flood waters. We drove the river areas in East Baton Rouge Parish, West Feliciana and Point Coupee Parishes and conducted an on-the-water patrol from the New Roads Ferry Landing to Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge and back.… 
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Mississippi River Flood of 2011
On Monday May 9, 2011 Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper went on a patrol of the Mississippi River in light of the rising flood waters. We drove the river areas in East Baton Rouge Parish, West Feliciana and Point Coupee Parishes and conducted an on-the-water patrol from the New Roads Ferry Landing to Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge and back.…
Posted in LMRK News Feed Tagged with: Bonne Carre Spillway, DOTD, General Information, MISSISSIPPI RIVER, Mississippi River Flood
Historic Flooding on the Mississippi River
As if we have not had enough disasters and catastrophes lately we are now experiencing flooding of historic proportions in the Mississippi River Basin. NOAA released new projection on Monday May 2, 2011 that predicts that the Mississippi River flood levels will exceed the levels during the Great Flood of 1927; reaching a projected highest level ever recorded in Vicksburg MS.…
Posted in LMRK News Feed Tagged with: Bonnet Carre Spillway, Great Flood, MISSISSIPPI RIVER, Mississippi River Basin, Quapaw Canoe Company
Mighty Missislick Expedition
We said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft. -Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
The Mississippi River—the Great River—has lent its undulating waters to boyhood dreams, once again.…
Posted in LMRK News Feed Tagged with: Carl Sandburg, Louisiana, MISSISSIPPI RIVER, Mississippi River Delta, New Orleans, oil disaster
Please Join C.C. Lockwood And The Crew Of The Old Man River Project
The Old Man River Project
A modern day adventure on the Mississippi River
Please Join C.C. Lockwood And The Crew Of The Old Man River Project For A Multimedia Presentation Of journeys Down The Mississippi River.
Renowned award-winning Louisiana nature photographer C.C.…
Posted in LMRK News Feed Tagged with: Baton Rouge, C.C. Lockwood, LASM, Louisiana Arts & Science Museum, Mighty Mississippi River, MISSISSIPPI RIVER, River Project, Tuesday December, York Boat
Natural, Man Made and Technology Based Disasters in the Mississippi River System in Louisiana – 2008
The Mississippi River transports 41% of the drainage from the 48 contiguous states through the state of Louisiana. Thirty percent of the Mississippi River flow is diverted to the Atchafalaya River through the Old river Control Complex.
October 2008
by,
Wilma Subra
Technical Advisor to LEAN
Subra Company
New Iberia, LA
Paul Orr
Communications Director
Louisiana Environmental Action Network
Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper
The Mississippi River transports 41% of the drainage from the 48 contiguous states through the state of Louisiana.…
Posted in LMRK News Feed Tagged with: Gulf of Mexico, Hurricane Gustav, Louisiana, Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper, MISSISSIPPI RIVER, Morgan City
Summer Volunteers and Interns Needed for Riverkeeper Program
We need interested and dedicated people to help monitor the Mississippi River as part of the Lower Mississippi Riverkeeper program. You would be spending 2 to 4 hours several times a month on a boat monitoring conditions in the Mississippi River.…
Final Report on the Riverkeeper Project – A report from the Louisiana Environmental Action Network, June 12, 1998
Summary
The Riverkeeper Project was completed in April of 1998. During the course of the project monthly river water samples were taken at six sites on the Mississippi River between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Each sample was tested for metals, trace elements, volatile organic chemicals, semi-volatile organic chemicals, organic pesticides, PCB’s (Polychlorinated Biphenyls), PCP’s (Polychlorinated Phenyls), odor, pH, turbidity, water hardness and dissolved oxygen.… 
