Wax Lake

The history of the Wax Lake Outlet, as well as the 20,000 cfs "Charenton Drainage and Navigation Canal", the Avoca Island Cutoff (Avoca Island-Cutoff Bayou drainage channel), and to a lesser extent the Chene, Boeuf, and Black navigation channel,[1] was to provide flood relief to the lower Atchafalaya Basin and Morgan City.

The Wax Lake outlet is an artificial channel that was created by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in 1942 to divert 30 percent of the flow from the Atchafalaya River to the Gulf of Mexico and reduce flood stages at Morgan City, Louisiana.

[3] In a reversal of normal building procedures construction of the bridges began first, as well as the Bayou Teche floodgates at Calumet.

[6] In the 64 years between 1941 and 2005, Wax Lake was completely filled with sediment, and the delta prograded approximately 8 km into the sea.

Because it was entirely created during an observable period and, other than the creation of the canal, was not altered by humans, it has often been in studies of deltaic formation.