Lower Mississippi

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-016141",
  "term": "Lower Mississippi",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "The Mississippi River below the Bonnet Carre Floodway, and the Coastal drainage, including islands and associated waters, from the Pearl River Basin boundary and the Mississippi- Louisiana state line to the East-Bank Levee of the Atchafalaya Basin Floodway, excluding the drainage from the north into Lake Pontchartrain, east to the Tchefuncta River drainage boundary; and excluding the Lower Grand River Basin. Louisiana. Area = 9460 sq.mi.",
  "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/"
}