Water Levels and Water-level Contour Maps for Southwestern Louisiana 1958 and 1959

Water Levels and Water-level Contour Maps for Southwestern Louisiana 1958 and 1959
Author: Alfred Harry Harder
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Total Pages: 110
Release: 1960
Genre: Groundwater
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Southwestern Louisiana is known as the "rice-bowl" of the nation. Of the 1,421,000 acres of rice grown in the United States in 1958, 28 percent or about 398,000 acres were harvested in southwestern Louisiana. Of this amount 202,000 acres (51 percent) were irrigated with ground water.