Distributary

The Old River Control Structure, a dam which regulates the outflow from the Mississippi into the Atchafalaya, was completed by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1963.

The dam is intended to prevent the Atchafalaya from capturing the main flow of the Mississippi and stranding the ports of Baton Rouge and New Orleans.

[3] In British Columbia, Canada, the Fraser River has numerous sloughs and side-channels which may be defined as distributaries.

On the east bank of Hongze Lake, another stream goes out of Gaoliangjian Gate and enters the Yellow Sea at the port of Bidan through Subei Guan'gai Zongqu, the main irrigation channel of Northern Jiangsu); its total length is 168 kilometers.

The third stream leaves the Erhe lock on the northeast bank of Hongze Lake, passes the Huaishuhe River to the north of Lianyungang city, and flows into Haizhou Bay through the Hongkou.

The Bamu River splits into several channels close to its mouth, among them the Bebea, Bina, Dibiri, and Aramia.

The Kikori River also splits into a multitude of channels as it crosses the plains close to the Gulf of Papua.