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English: Flood waters from Lake Verret at Pierre Part, Louisiana, during the Louisiana flooding of 1973. The Lake has been unable to drain normally into the flood swolen Atchafalya, during the opening of the Morganza Floodway.

In the spring of 1973 the Mississippi river reached its highest level in more than 150 years. Unprecedented flooding occurred throughout the river basin. Particularly affected was the marsh area below New Orleans and the entire Atchafalaya river basin Morgan City waterfront on the Atchafalaya.

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