Lower Mississippi Region

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-016142",
  "term": "Lower Mississippi Region",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "The drainage of: (a) the Mississippi River below its confluence with the Ohio River, excluding the Arkansas, Red, and White River Basins above the points of highest backwater effect of the Mississippi River in those basins; and (b) coastal streams that ultimately discharge into the Gulf of Mexico from the Pearl River Basin boundary to the Sabine River and Sabine Lake drainage boundary. Includes parts of Arkansas, Kentucky Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee.",
  "references": [
    "USGS Water Resources of the United States. Boundary Descriptions and Names of Regions, Subregions, Accounting Units and Cataloging Units"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/lower-mississippi-region/"
}