The oxbow’s natural shoreline along the Rouge River, once eliminated for flood control, has been restored and transformed ...

The river water breaks through forming a new channel. The meander gets blocked off with sand and gravel and becomes an oxbow lake. There’s one on the River Earn, which flows into the River Tay.

It was sometimes referred to as a bayou, but most often as a "slough." Whatever you called the waterway into the Fox River, ...