Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development says I-10 West is closed at Mile Marker 213 due to an incident.

(The Times-Picayune archive) 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 ...

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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: The rush of ...

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 ...

Above: Extracting a needle--very carefully--from the Bonnet Carré Spillway during its opening on January 10, 2016. Each of the 350 concrete bays holds 20 needles. Image credit: Bob Henson.

Repeated openings of the Bonnet Carré Spillway, never contemplated when it was built 91 years ago, threaten an ecosystem that has sustained South Mississippi and Louisiana residents for centuries.

With rising water levels on the Mississippi River, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced it would open the Bonnet Carre' spillway on Wednesday. It will be the 13th flooding of the spillway ...

Above: Extracting a needle--very carefully--from the Bonnet Carré Spillway during its last opening on January 10, 2016. Each of the 350 concrete bays holds 20 needles. Image credit: Bob Henson.

With the Mississippi River rising and heavy rainfall upstream, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will conduct a test opening of the Bonnet Carré Spillway on Monday, April 21 at 10 a.m. The test ...