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The U..S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided against opening the Bonnet Carré Spillway — welcome news for South Mississippi as Mississippi River water released through the spillway can degrade ...

The Bonnet Carre Spillway has been opened more than a dozen times since it was constructed nearly 100 years ago, but the protection it offers New Orleans’ levee system comes at a cost ...

By Tuesday, April 29, USACE expects water flow at Bonnet Carré to exceed 1.28 million cubic feet per second, triggering the opening of 30 to 60 bays on the spillway until levels dip back to 1.25 ...

Major flooding is expected on the Mississippi River at New Orleans in late April through June, with the possibility that the Bonnet Carré Spillway will open, sending polluted river water into ...

Oyster reefs have yet to recover from the prolonged opening in 2019 of the Bonnet Carré Spillway that released Mississippi River floodwaters into Lake Pontchartrain and the Sound. The Army Corps ...

The bays of the Bonnet Carre Spillway remained closed in 2021 as water heights didn't reach the threshold needed to trigger its opening. Punching two more channels upriver from the Bonnet Carré ...

On Friday April 3, the U.S Army Corps of Engineers will open the Bonnet Carre Spillway. The Army Corps says that heavy rain in the Mississippi Valley and rising Mississippi River water stages and ...

The Bonnet Carre Spillway could be opened as soon as Friday to divert part of the Mississippi River's flow into Lake Pontchartrain, thanks to continued heavy rains along the mid-Mississippi and Ohio ...