The Bonnet Carré Spillway is opened to relieve stress on New Orleans levees when the Mississippi River flows at 1.25 million cubic feet per second -- enough to fill the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in ...

The Bonnet Carre Spillway. The Corps will open the spillway to keep the volume of Mississippi River flows at New Orleans from exceeding 1.25 million cubic feet per second (cfs), ...

All lanes are blocked on I-10 westbound near I-55 northbound on the Bonnet Carré Spillway due to a crash. Congestion has ...

With water levels in the Mississippi River falling, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers crews have started closing 10 of the 168 open bays of the Bonnet Carre Spillway in Norco, Monday, July 22, 2019.

NEW ORLEANS — Could the Bonnet Carré Spillway be opened for the second time in a single year? It seems the answer to that is a definite maybe. The Bonnet Carré Spillway, is opened to relieve ...

I took this photo shortly after departure from New Orleans on January 11. The lower part of the photo shows the Bonnet Carré Spillway, which had just been opened to divert excess water from the ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in New Orleans is opening the Bonnet Carre Spillway, sending Mississippi River water into the Gulf Coast sound, where a 2019 opening killed oysters, possibly dolphins.

The Corps will open the spillway to keep the volume of Mississippi River flows at New Orleans from exceeding 1.25 million cubic feet per second, which current projections indicate will occur on ...

Dozens of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers personnel spent Saturday in preparation mode, testing cranes and inspecting the Bonnet Carré Spillway.Sunday’s opening was the first time in nearly five ...

Workers open bays of the Bonnet Carre Spillway, to divert rising water from the Mississippi River to Lake Pontchartrain, upriver from New Orleans, in Norco, La., Friday, May 10, 2019.

Workers for the Army Corps of Engineers slowly remove large wooden pins to open the Bonnet Carre Spillway in March of 2018. Tuesday's opening would be the first time the spillway has been used ...