(WVUE) - Motorists heading up Interstate 10 near Gramercy might view the Maurepas Swamp as a thriving, living Louisiana postcard ... with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers helped make it possible.

Narrator] The Atchafalaya River Basin is America's largest river swamp and Louisiana's first line ... There's so much engineering that's gone on so that this basin provides flood control.

The Maurepas project benefits from an innovative partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ... Louisiana parishes. The Corps will count 9,000 acres (36 square kilometers) of Maurepas Swamp ...