sentence: The Corps now actively creates and maintains spillways and floodways to divert periodic water surges into backwater channels and lakes , as well as route part of the Mississippi 's flow into the Atchafalaya Basin and from there to the Gulf of Mexico , bypassing Baton Rouge and New Orleans .
question: why was something routed _ _ somewhere ?
answers: The Corps now actively creates and maintains spillways and floodways to divert periodic water surges into backwater channels and lakes